Conscious Pictures
Consciousness Central is a series of programs coming from The Science of Consciousness conference (TSC) in Tucson, Arizona.
Featuring conversations with some of the world’s leading researchers in the field of consciousness, roving reports, and analysis of the day’s main presentations.
In this program:
SELEN ATASOY discussing psychedelic research (01:07)
POSTER SESSION (09:17)
JOSCHA BACH on computational consciousness (13:36)
CIRQUE ROOTS performance (23:17)
STUART KAFFMAN, BRUCE DAMER, STEEN RASMUSSEN on evolution and consciousness (27:17)
STUART HAMEROFF plenary roundup (37:52)
Hosted by NICK DAY, with plenary roundups by STUART HAMEROFF.
To watch TSC 2018 plenary talks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNDcpkKXg2UioJKxTZI-ZA
TSC 2019 Interlaken: https://www.tsc2019-interlaken.ch
Moderation guidelines: Comments on the ideas raised here are welcome, personal attacks on individuals will be removed.
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do you need a psychedelic guinea pig? ı'm good with no pay ^^
She…completes me.
My approach for measuring consciousness is super simple:
*Consciousness is the ability to model reality internally, at some number of dimensions.*
Levels of consciousness increase with the number of dimensions that can be modeled:
0D – preconsciousness – simple matter "models" only itself, it's internal state is it's internal state (1:1 modeling). It's not really conscious, but it is "aware" of itself in a sense, at the moment, so it's sort of the fetal stage of consciousness.
1D – physical consciousness – a single celled organism (and maybe plants?) models itself, now, plus a future state, or an outside state. It can have a goal state in mind, essentially, or be aware that "there's something I like/dislike out there". Current, linear, computers are at this level as well I think. They have a current state and a goal state, and try to move from point A to point B.
2D – emotional consciousness – a simple brain and similar things can model both its own current and goal state along with a current and goal state of another individual (animal, vegetable, mineral, etc.) and see where they both intersect for more complex, non-linear, problem solving.
3D – intellectual consciousness – a social animal has the ability to model things logically, by looking at a whole group of individual perspectives (current state to goal state) starting with the self, and moving outward from there in an "objective" space where problems can be solved by triangulating the intersection point of the three different paths.
4D – philosophical consciousness – a mature human brain can model all four dimensions of time and space for a model that can problem solve for "me, you, and everyone else, now and into the future" all in one impressive go (neuroscience, and some funny math, suggests this starts coming online around age 40, when the two sides of the prefrontal cortex start functioning in parallel instead of only one at a time).