Conversations with History: Christof Koch

[CognitivePhilosophy]

14:03 We can what???! :D :D :D

[rephaim23]

Harrison Ford Carrot top meets terminator 2.

[thekingnoah]

hahahaha his last name is funny

[Ermal8711]

Dr. Koch is such a great guy.

[vsaluki]

Christof, if you find every correlation between brain activity and visual consciousness you still will not be able to say how neuronal firing, (even if you know exactly where it is and under what conditions it happens) can be red. This is a problem that is simply outside the scope of reductionism. Reductionism will get you correlation between neuronal firing and mental experience. It will never tell you how neuronal firing can be mental experience.

[lq4fcrx7]

@vsaluki

I bet you're fat and eat candy... that was a neuronal firing experience

[ff11r]

@vsaluki a mental experience is because of synchronisation between theta-gamma brainwaves which mobilises and give rise to neural activity. hence neuronal firing is mental experience, true story

[Archeagle]

he looks like Indiana jones with red hair

[Scofield0085]

The person conducting the interview is just excellent, and Koch is fantastic, as always.

[AngelAboveSin]

Christof Koch is so cool~!~!~!~! <3

[RJMooreII]

What the Hell is with his hair?!

[k9thru12]

-7399 A L E X J O N E S 8:48

[eKh79]

very interesting. but his accent really freaks me out. as someone born in the us he still has that very special german accent ... this is unbelievable. and the hair of course!

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[EvolvedAtheist]

2:36 Covered the GAMUT, not "gambit"! I would have expected better from someone in his position. That sort of malapropism is the result of learning the language "naturalistically", as another native English speaker with poor English recently wrote.

[nineinchtaint]

Harrison Ford on LSD

[hyperseauton]

Guy looks like Harrison Ford and talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger :)

[RJMooreII]

@hyperseauton Arnold has an Austrian accent, this guy has an NE German accent.

[natedaug1]

@nineinchtaint Damn he does look like Harrison Ford, but sort of a punk Harrison Ford.

[threelegduck]

I've just started reading Christoff's book. It's neat since he spent over a decade studying the biophysics of neural information processing. Sure, Linus Pauling became a bit of a charletan later in life, but its excusable with such a great and thoughtful intellect

[Ironstead]

Excellent talk on the nature of consciousness. Yet the big question not addressed is whether conscious sensations (qualia) require energy? If yes then why is qualia not predicted in any physical theory since low energy phenomena like its generation are supposedly very well understood by physics. If no then an extension of physics will be required that goes beyond seeing reality as only material. In either case it will require a revolution in physics.

[chandlerheim]

I believe Koch's view would be that molecular energies and electrical action potentials would be the energies required in order to generate these experiential qualia - although surely there are atomic energies to discuss.

"Quest" discusses, for example, 40Hz visual cortex AP oscillations which are thought to be relevant in producing visual qualia. Moderate panpsychism would assume that cells have a form of consciousness themselves, produced by ATP/O energies, acids, NTs and spec. of neural fn.

[crdrews]

Christof Koch together with Steven Pinker have very exquisite hair style.

[demonfelix]

It would be a scandal indeed to leave cness out of science. 2+2=4 maybe true but what is it that verifies it? Cness. It is cness that does science itself. It's like the eye that sees the world but cannot see itself. But if we study our own eye with the use of a mirror this would not violate epistemic objectivity. So it would be with studying cness.

Christof looks like Harrison Ford with Arnold's accent.

[demonfelix]

It would be a scandal indeed to leave cness out of science. 2+2=4 maybe true but what is it that verifies it? Cness. It is cness that does science itself. It's like the eye that sees the world but cannot see itself. But if we study our own eye with the use of a mirror this would not violate epistemic objectivity. So it would be with studying cness.

Christof looks like Harrison Ford with Arnold's accent.

[nn071388]

Interesting talk and very interest choice of hair color.

[ContraWagner]

Thank you very much for this interview.

[listeningriffin]

interesting talk. i wish i had been the narrator.

[muchachaverdeygris]

why is his hair orange?

[JamaicaGR10]

Yeah, I'm wondering that too. It's a good thing it is tho, cus thats the only reason I clicked, and I'm very pleased that I did.

[JamaicaGR10]

So yeah, on his web site he says "He loves colors..."

[anahowana]

your sir did it a year ago, i did it a year later

and im pleased too.