On Consciousness with Giulio Tononi, Max Tegmark and David Chalmers

Tononi is always composed, clear and on point. I've never seen him dodge a question or going around the subjects which were raised. Also the girl, whose name i don't recall, gave very good explanations, regardless her fragmented speech. Thank you for the talk.

@FQXi You should probably include all the participants on the panel in the description of your videos. Larissa Albantakis and others that were left out of the title contributed as much as anyone to the discussion.

Came here again after reading ‘Sizing up Consciouness’ by Giulio Tononi. Could understand most of thing he’s saying now. IIT looks so promising in this field!

I think it's fair to say that your brain takes in external input and builds your internal view of that in large part from what it expects to encounter (due to learned experience) and also what it deems is important for survival, and throws away all the other unnecessary inputs (90% of them of whatever that may be). Long term memory would would in a similar way I think. I am always struck by the sensation when the brain sees something grande that it has never seen before...the sense of wonder you feel. I had this very feeling during the total solar eclipse in 2017. It was very much a mouth open wide wonderment but also, 'brain does not compute' moment! Even though I had travelled to a specific location to get the best view and spent weeks reading about eclipses and looking at photos, when I actually saw it in the flesh I was absolutely marveled by how utterly bamboozled my brain was at the sight. It was like one half of my brain was asking the other, 'what did you think was going to happen?!' I've never had quite such an internal experience before or since but perhaps it hints at the possibility of distinct processes involved in internalizing/sorting vs actually interpreting.

I'm not going to lie but seein those 3 names in the video title made me scream like a girl.

Chalmers and Tegmark seem to really enjoy wearing leather jackets

Video is so good that I even learn from reading the comments...

Federico Faggin (1st speaker) knows computer very well. Top!

David chalmers my favorite philosopher

All this talk if consciousness, not a word about the subconscious. All that goes on in the brain, that we have limited access to, but that just as integral to us as the part we like to talk about. When are we going to unravel this?

Max tegmark is brilliant

15:00 "Seeing a rose" she is correct. Watch Jeff Hawkins : the visual field is constructed by the brain. It doesn't register the input from the eyes on a screen. More information travels from the brain to the eyes, than vice-versa.

Kudos for the conference to have one woman on the panel but my question is why is there only one woman on the pal?

So according to Giulio Tononi, consciousness is actually equivalent to space?

What if we find a theory that has the strengths of both integrated information theory and functionalism

If anyone actually educated in physics reads this, plz comment on my weak pseudo-scientific hypothesis and let me know if this could even be possible plz. Here it is lol... We know time isnt linear so if we discover consciousness is fundamental for the universe to exist, then mabey life/consciousness evolves so much that it discovers it created itself.i know this is a uneducated pseudoscientific idea, but could this be possible? 1st the singularity, then specific laws of physics, elements, the planet(s), simple life,complex life, and as if rn conscious life that continues to become more conscious is creating A.I. which in theory could just be the next level of consciousness.Mabey that's why we have such curiosity to know how the universe work's and instincts to survive. Idk, lol but it's fun to consider.

Tononi wanted to say something at 30:08 , I wonder what could be it

Question from Federico Faggin (no one seemed to answer it), "If you postulate the existence of consciousness as an axiom then how can you claim consciousness emerges out of a physical system" . My answer is because there is difference between a axiom of a theory and fundamental aspect of nature.

Tononi looks like a priest

I think that conscious observer is present in any scenario. If measurement makes a device, rather than human, then the observer is a human, who checks what the device has recorded. Also, I've got a wild idea about the collapsing the macro universe billions of years ago: what if collapse had really happened billions of years ago before the observer came into existence, but AFTER the observer came into existence (event of the future influences the past, like in Delayed Choice experiment)