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.

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