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

Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal delve into death, neuroscientific models of Ai, God, and consciousness.

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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-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): 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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