• Mysteries of the Mental and Material

  • Sep 18 2021
  • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Mysteries of the Mental and Material

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  • Consciousness is a central feature of our humanity, yet consciousness is a mystery. Conscious experience comprises every aspect of our waking lives, yet we have a hard time explaining its nature. We know that our brains and bodies are made up of energy and matter. We also know that if we get a big bonk on the head, we can disturb the energy and matter in such a way as to LOSE consciousness. So what is the nature of the relationship between mental properties (such as itchy feeling) and physical properties (such as firing neurons)? For millennia, humans have been trying to bridge this ‘explanatory gap.’ And as we enter the age of AI, questions about the nature of consciousness will become more relevant as we create artificial beings who will think and feel like us.  Artificial IntelligenceSentienceBishop Berkeley (Idealism)The Technological SingularityPhenomenal ConsciousnessQualiaAnimal ConsciousnessReductionismPhysicalismSubjective/Objective DistinctionEpistemologyMental PropertiesGritsCausal completeness/closureThe Explanatory Gap“What it is Like to be a Bat?"” Cartesian TheaterNanotechnologyPenrose MicrotubulesCartesian Dualism Eliminativism Paul and Patricia ChurchlandConsciousness Explained by Daniel DennetConscious by Annaka HarrisThe Conscious Mind by David ChalmersFolk PsychologyCausal OverdeterminationEmergentismPanpsychismI Am a Strange Loop by Douglas HofstadterWhat is it like to be a Thermostat?Multiple Drafts TheoryRecursionFractalsfMRIsComplexity and ConsciousnessSubstrate IndependenceEmulationEms (Emulation) - The Age of Em by Robin HansonAgnosticismConscious UniversePanpsychism Redux (Porcelli’s Page!)The Tao of Physics by Fritjof CapraWilber’s Quantum QuestionsDancing Wu Li MastersInterdependent Co-arising (Pratītyasamutpāda)Indra’s NetVedantaMythopoetic ThoughtPhenomenologyMeditationEdmund HusserlNaturalismPsychonauticsPhysicalismParadigm Shift and Thomas KuhnIneffabilityEpistemic Status of Unobservable Entities
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