Anil Seth: Neuroscience of Consciousness & The Self

The legendary Anil Seth explicates on the neuroscience of consciousness, mind uploading, and its relationship to materialism. Patreon:   / curtjaimungal   Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter:   / toewithcurt   Discord Invite:   / discord   iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything:   / theoriesofeverything   Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Anil Seth's Links WEBSITE: https://anilseth.com TWITTER:   / anilkseth   TED TALK:    • Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Rea...   00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:08 What's alluring about "consciousness" research? 00:03:51 Defining "phenomenonology" 00:05:56 What does it mean to "explain" consciousness? 00:14:52 Difference between illusion and hallucination 00:18:16 If perception is tuned for fitness, why care about objective reality? 00:24:44 Applying Donald Hoffman's ideas to Anil Seth's 00:33:39 Does time actually slow down, during high valence emotions 00:36:31 Details on the Bayesian model of consciousness 00:41:50 Can you be wrong about your own perceptions? 00:46:29 Myth of left brain vs. right brain 00:54:31 The role of the "ego" and the loss of it 00:56:45 Consciousness and quantum mechanics 01:00:37 Sapir Whorf hypothesis and Curt's polemics 01:10:24 Language and conscious experience 01:13:33 Can I "see" without noticing? What's the difference? 01:17:27 The Bayesian model of consciousness (and its limitations) 01:25:16 How does the Bayesian model deal with mental disorders 01:36:26 Gödel's incompleteness theorem's implications on the computational nature of the brain 01:42:23 Can we upload our minds? (a neuroscientific perspective) 01:45:48 Integrated Information Theory and measuring Phi 01:50:21 Peter Lush's recent paper and undermining the rubber hand illusion 01:55:09 Placebo effect and hypnosis 02:01:25 Experiments involving psychedelics (LSD and microdosing) 02:04:01 Anil's personal insights from psychedelics 02:06:18 Anil's views on Daniel Dennet's "Explaining Consciousness" 02:12:26 Compadilism, free will, and Douglas Hofsteddar 02:15:21 Global Workspace Theory 02:19:45 Anil Seth and Pragmatism 02:22:39 Curt's list of final questions, reputiated 02:23:35 How do the various AI archetictures relate to the brain? (GAN / Convultional / etc) 02:32:17 How does Anil stay so fit? 02:33:44 Comporting rationalism with irrational behaviours * * Subscribe if you want more conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, God, and the mathematics / physics of each. * * I'm producing an imminent documentary Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to contribute to getting the film distributed (in 2020) and seeing more conversations like this.