TSC 2022 – Plenary 2 – Keynote 1 – Brain & Consciousness

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1. 🙏Especially Human Brain Is Most Powerful Like An Instrumen Namastay To Everyone🙏

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   the last 30 years that there's been a change this wasn't the case before to real
   
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   theories of consciousness so what i'm what i do what i mean by theory is a sort of sophisticated theory
   
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   that proceeds from a minimal set of non-conflicting assumptions and
   
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   postulates and no attack assumption you can't have a theory where you have a 50 attack assumption that you just have to
   
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   assume you don't know why you want to keep that really to a minimum so you want to have a minimum set sort
   
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   of almost an axiomatic approach of non-conflicting assumptions and postulates that are that are amenable to
   
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   empirical falsification and and and verification
   
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   this and the the key project here they need to explain how conscious states relate to the to the underlying
   
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   substrate the ncc but they also need to and this is a test met by far fewer
   
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   it's not it's not just the mystery how consciousness arises out of out of matter highly active matter
   
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   but also why does it feel so different so why time flows right we all of the experience the passage of time it's a
   
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   very different conscious experience in space space is extended you know whether you're in front of a black canvas or in
   
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   front of the the sky here in tucson last night or this it's always extended or
   
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   auditory space or some other sensory taste and so how does that arise or the
   
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   the qualia associated with color or with pain or with love being in love those all distinct qualia and the theory need
   
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   need to explain why and now the these theories are really different from what i call hypothesis so
   
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   the hypothesis francis click and i made early on is that 40 hertz is important in

3. It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first.

   The thing I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing.

   I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order.

   My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461

4. "whether ontology really exists or not" haha

5. How come he had to say Mom's Belly – because of the infamous Mel Brooks, Woo Woo stigma? haha.

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