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The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

The Royal Institution4 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
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Neuroscientist Anil Seth gives a Royal Institution lecture on the science of consciousness. He separates conscious level, content and self, and argues that experience arises from the brain's predictive inference.

HN commenters recommend it as a clear, in-depth lecture on consciousness as a process of prediction.

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@neom2017 · in “Is Consciousness an Illusion?”

World Science Festival has a slew of really awesome talks etc on this subject posted to youtube: [LINK] And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great: [VIDEO] Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett: [LINK]

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@awkwardtortoise2017 · in “Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference”

If you find the topic of consciousness interesting, here is an interesting neuroscientist's talk on consciousness. The idea that we can measure levels of consciousness as brain scanning tools become available and how consciousness may just be a "prediction process/function/tool". It's not "I think therefore I am", but "I predict, therefore I am". [VIDEO]

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@eighthnate2017 · in “Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”

His lecture at the Royal Institution is better and more in depth. [VIDEO] Worth a watch if you have an hour to spare.

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@qubax2018 · in “Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world”

I remember seeing this on hn before. The current thesis is that the brain ( consciousness ) is a predicting machine. A very interesting lecture by a neuroscientist. [VIDEO]

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@qubax2018 · in “I woke up unable to speak English”

If you are interested in the brain, there are good royal institute lectures on youtube. The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth [VIDEO] The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire [LINK] Also, any book by oliver sacks is great if you'd rather read books rather than watch lectures.

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@AareyBaba2018 · in “Consciousness: The last 50 years (and the next)”

The author's talk at the Royal Institute is here [VIDEO] Overall, I'd say we are no closer to understanding consciousness than we were 30 years ago. As a science, we are still poking at the brain to gather data and proposing hand-wavy models of low level behavior. As philosophy, we still don't agree on what the phenomenon we need to study is. My gut feeling is that consciousness/intelligence is an emergent phenomenon of the physical brain (a very high-dimensional non-linear system not amenable to reductionism) and that the simplest model of the brain will be too complex for our brains to understand.

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