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

12/12/23 • 163 min

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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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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

THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel.

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Previous Episode

Scott Aaronson: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Math

YouTube link https://youtu.be/1ZpGCQoL2Rk

Scott Aaronson joins us to explore quantum computing, complexity theory, Ai, superdeterminism, consciousness, and free will.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:27 Turing universality & computational efficiency

00:12:35 Does prediction undermine free will?

00:15:16 Newcomb's paradox

00:23:05 Quantum information & no-cloning

00:33:42 Chaos & computational irreducibility

00:38:33 Brain duplication, Ai, & identity

00:46:43 Many-worlds, Copenhagen, & Bohm's interpretation

01:03:14 Penrose's view on quantum gravity and consciousness

01:14:46 Superposition explained: misconceptions of quantum computing

01:21:33 Wolfram's physics project critique

01:31:37 P vs NP explained (complexity classes demystified)

01:53:40 Classical vs quantum computation

02:03:25 The "pretty hard" problem of consciousness (critiques of IIT)

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Scott's Blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/

Newcomb's Paradox (Scott's Blog Post): https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=30

A New Kind of Science (Stephen Wolfram): https://amzn.to/47BTiaf

Jonathan Gorard's Papers: https://arxiv.org/search/gr-qc?searchtype=author&query=Gorard,+J

Boson Sampling (Alex Arkhipov and Scott Aaronson): https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3245

Podcast w/ Tim Maudlin on TOE (Solo): https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss

Podcast w/ Tim Palmer on TOE: https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXE

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