Brain Inspired

BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics

Apr 22, 2025
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INSIGHT

AI's Timeless Success

  • AI has diverged from neuroscience, achieving success without continuous time processing.
  • Transformers use positional encoding to handle sequence order, not real-time dynamics.
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Presentism vs Eternalism Debate

  • Neuroscientists perceive time as flowing (presentism), while physicists often view time as static (eternalism).
  • The debate centers on whether the flow of time is an illusion or real.
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IIT Challenges Physics

  • Integrated Information Theory (IIT) proposes consciousness arises from causal structures in matter.
  • IIT faces criticism as it may not integrate well with established physics laws, challenging its scientific status.
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