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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:08 What’s alluring about “consciousness” research?
00:03:51 Defining “phenomenonology”
00:05:56 What does it mean to “explain” consciousness?
00:14:52 Difference between illusion and hallucination
00:18:16 If perception is tuned for fitness, why care about objective reality?
00:24:44 Applying Donald Hoffman’s ideas to Anil Seth’s
00:33:39 Does time actually slow down, during high valence emotions
00:36:31 Details on the Bayesian model of consciousness
00:41:50 Can you be wrong about your own perceptions?
00:46:29 Myth of left brain vs. right brain
00:54:31 The role of the “ego” and the loss of it
00:56:45 Consciousness and quantum mechanics
01:00:37 Sapir Whorf hypothesis and Curt’s polemics
01:10:24 Language and conscious experience
01:13:33 Can I “see” without noticing? What’s the difference?
01:17:27 The Bayesian model of consciousness (and its limitations)
01:25:16 How does the Bayesian model deal with mental disorders
01:36:26 Gödel’s incompleteness theorem’s implications on the computational nature of the brain
01:42:23 Can we upload our minds? (a neuroscientific perspective)
01:45:48 Integrated Information Theory and measuring Phi
01:50:21 Peter Lush’s recent paper and undermining the rubber hand illusion
01:55:09 Placebo effect and hypnosis
02:01:25 Experiments involving psychedelics (LSD and microdosing)
02:04:01 Anil’s personal insights from psychedelics
02:06:18 Anil’s views on Daniel Dennet’s “Explaining Consciousness”
02:12:26 Compadilism, free will, and Douglas Hofsteddar
02:15:21 Global Workspace Theory
02:19:45 Anil Seth and Pragmatism
02:22:39 Curt’s list of final questions, reputiated
02:23:35 How do the various AI archetictures relate to the brain? (GAN / Convultional / etc)
02:32:17 How does Anil stay so fit?
02:33:44 Comporting rationalism with irrational behaviours
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