Joscha Bach Λ Karl Friston: Ai, Death, Self, God, Consciousness from Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Joscha Bach Λ Karl Friston: Ai, Death, Self, God, Consciousness

2 hour 37 minutes Posted Dec 12, 2023 at 8:14 am.

Introduction00:01:47 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- 02:32:22 Existential crises as one delves into consciousness- 02:35:06 Podcast wrap-upNOTE: 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. - Patreon: / curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: / toewithcurt - Discord Invite: / discord - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: / theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchLINKS MENTIONED: - Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589 - A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach and 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 Lemke 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

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Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal delve into death, neuroscientific models of Ai, God, and consciousness.SPONSORS:- HelloFresh: Go to https://HelloFresh.com/theoriesofever... and use code theoriesofeverythingfree for FREE breakfast for life!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- 02:32:22 Existential crises as one delves into consciousness- 02:35:06 Podcast wrap-upNOTE: 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. - Patreon: / curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: / toewithcurt - Discord Invite: / discord - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: / theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchLINKS MENTIONED: - Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589 - A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach and 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 Lemke 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

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