TIMESTAMPS:
– 00:00:00 Introduction
– 00:01:47 Karl and Joscha’s new paper
– 00:09:13 Sentience vs. consciousness vs. The Self
– 00:21:00 Self-organization, thingness, and self-evidencing
– 00:29:02 Overlapping realities and physics as art
– 00:41:05 Mortal computation and substrate-agnostic Ai
– 00:56:38 Beyond Von Neumann architectures
– 01:00:23 Ai surpassing human researchers
– 01:20:34 Exploring vs. Exploiting (the risk of curiosity in academia)
– 01:27:02 Incompleteness and interdependence
– 01:32:25 Defining consciousness
– 01:53:36 Multiple overlapping consciousnesses
– 02:03:03 Unified experience and schizophrenia “insights”
– 02:10:16 Psychedelic experiences
– 02:22:20 Institutional rot in science
– 02:23:31 OpenAI CEO controversy
– 2:31:09 Existential crises as one delves into consciousness
– 02:35:06 Podcast wrap-up
NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don’t necessarily mirror my own. There’s a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist.
THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
– Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston & Alex Ororbia): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589
– A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach & Liane Gabora): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y3tzs
– Podcast w/ Joshua on TOE (solo): https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI
– Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA
– Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & John Vervaeke on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4
– Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A
– Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww
– Podcast w/ Karl Friston solo on TOE: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M
– Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw
– Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Anna Lembke on TOE: COMING
– Podcast w/ Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc
– Podcast w/ Chris Fields on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw
– I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter): https://amzn.to/3GGqjpM