Mark Solms: Consciousness and Artificial Sentience

Mark Solms is a celebrated neuroscientist known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming. His work with Karl Friston and others has had a profound influence on our understanding of consciousness.

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Today’s topics include:

* Consciousness in non-human animals

* Historical paradigms in our understanding of consciousness

* The source of consciousness in the brain stem

* The “hard problem” of consciousness

* The possibility of engineering consciousness in non-biological substrates

* The ethical implications of synthetic and non-biological systems

… and other topics,

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* Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-hidden-spring/mark-solms/9781788162838

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