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Conversations with History: Christof Koch

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes neurobiologist Christof Koch for a discussion of what biology can tell us about consciousness. He discusses the framework for defining the problem which he developed w...  
 
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threelegduck (1 year ago) Show Hide
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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
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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.
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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 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Christof Koch together with Steven Pinker have very exquisite hair style.
JamaicaGR10 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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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 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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So yeah, on his web site he says "He loves colors..."
anahowana (1 month ago) Show Hide
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your sir did it a year ago, i did it a year later
and im pleased too.
demonfelix (1 year ago) Show Hide
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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 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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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.
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Interesting talk and very interest choice of hair color.

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