I really love how you explain things! Thank you!

fascinating

I can talk to anyone one on one but my brain gets in knots when I'm in a group or publicly speaking. Then it's followed by awkward silence while I try to detangle my thoughts. How do you overcome this

If we can master the art of hyper focus, we will be unstoppable

A couple minor criticisms. Poor explanation where discussing that consciousness is tip-of-the-iceberg of the mind, conflating consciousness with executive control and cognition. This is contradicted elsewhere in this presentation where it is explained correctly that minimal consciousness doesn't require conscious executive control or cognition. Even humans at certain times every day have consciousness without cognition and without using any form of executive control (debatable whether both at the same time, but probably 99% of our adult lifetime we execute our movements and even speaking with no conscious executive control). There is also the incorrect assertion that there is not consciousness during sleep. There is no consciousness during dreamless sleep. People do dream during sleep and we are certainly conscious while we dream. (One must understand here we do not mean the subject experience of consciousness generally, which is very different from consciousness OF something).

The sleepwalking slide is a little confusing to me. I had always thought the PCC was a region associated with awareness, so it’s surprising to learn that it’s activated during sleepwalking when the person is clearly unaware.

The perception of time changes not time itself, I have experienced this personally and it’s pretty unbelievable.

Thank you so much. Not many talk about it. Because it seems Soo small. So unimportant. But the fact that I don't or can't work on the things that are important to me, constantly being distracted (mompreneur) seemed like a normal part of life, but NOT TO MY BRAIN 🧠. The years of neglected small unimportant things that I've been thinking of but not acting on, lead to INSANE RAGE outbursts. It's scary and so ugly . I couldn't put my finger on it why am I so impulsive? Because of this things that I'm always thinking of but not acting on. ❤ Maybe it'll be helpful to someone

The default mode network is also present in animals such as rodents. I wonder if they have a sense of self?

For the professor: the frequency of use of the words "kind of" in your discourse is excessive. Most people might not realise, but for a non negligible number of others, like me, it becomes incredibly distracting. Several dozens of times in single lectures. These are things that we are not conscious of, so there's nobody to blame. If there is anyone to blame, that would be those that care about you, know about it and didn't tell you.

Visualization!

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DTI LOL

Really enjoyed this and learnt a lot Thanks

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It’s already happening. I was only thinking about something and it came up on Facebook. I didn’t talk or search it. Interestingly, my friend noticed the same thing! Sadly it’s wasted on ads and revenue generation for Meta… or are they just testing the tech on Facebook?

Sir , please answer my question to Binding problem in your Binding problem shortt video

Very Boring video on ADHD😴😴

Insightful

Are you a neuroscientist ? Which University sir ?

Really interesting video. I'd love to see some discussion of how the DM Network intersects with aphantasia .. with the inability to visualise, to visually recall past events or visually imagine future scenarios. I'm pretty sure I have an overactive DMN and definitely have aphantasia (I knew this before I was even aware there was a name for it). So even though part of the DMN's role is to imagine future scenarios and "play these out", I have zero ability to in any sense meaningfully do this. Which means I often end up feeling VERY trapped in the present. Not in any sort of aware/mindfulness sense, simply in the sense of having no past I can easily access and no ability to really conjure up possible futures, except in an extremely analytical (data points, endlessly writing lists) sense. So, trapped by BOTH aphantasia and also by my hyperactive DMN in a sense, maybe.

Just because you think you know, does it mean you no listen to me you idiot we use left brain 10% carnal mind you’re right brain is 90% dormant on the way to activate. It is through meditation and you will literally enlighten new brain cells. this is what Jesus is talking about church and religion are going on the wrong path like you are I think you’re only using one percent of your brain.

God is amazing :)

This is really great 🔥I’ve got to learn alot

Evolution has nothing to do with it

So you're telling me, like a good engineer Evolution saw a underused part of the system and retrofitted it with an upgrade to gain more functionality

Hmmm ... I'm on the spectrum and I'm super good at partner recognition but I suck at remembering faces and interrupting facial expressions. Just gotta wonder if that part of the brain is a part of the ASD differences

Misinformation spreads this way lmao

Let's face it - the region in the brain needed to exist before we could start reading

3500 years? Maybe you should try reading modern history.

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jared, 19, got a hit to the head on back of my ear

That sure is fascinating brother. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! 🙏👏👏👏

My goal is to get into this field! Currently in Data Science

The “self” I wouldn’t exist without language. Language MUST be a factor in our perception of the reality of self.

My condition started when I was 15 and now I am 22. At first I thought it was OCD but after using medication for a few months and not being cured i realized that it wasnt OCD. The doctor even gave me a different type of antidepressant but it only did a 25 % improvement . My mind is like constantly producing random thoughts which sometimes get scary and overwhelming . I pray that its ADHD otherwise i dont know what it is . It feels like there is a war going on in my head and that i am going insane .

My condition started when i was 15 and now i am 22. I have so many thoughts in a short amount of time . These thoughts jump from ideas to ideas which are often unrelated . It's like there is this evil version of me in my head that produces non stop thoughts which get scary sometimes . At first i thought it was ocd but after taking medication for a few months and not being cured and not being able to focus i realized that it wasnt ocd . Doctor even changed the medication but still there was only a 25 percent improvement overall. Now my last hope is that it's ADHD because if it's not that i don't know what it is.

Hello, I'm enjoying your lectures. Just wondering if lecture five was recorded and if it could be added to the playlist.

Why is Steve Wonders' song great? very well done video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2jHaHSCarmppJY

The only animal capable of communicating in abstract symbolic representations. Ignoring this has been clearly demonstrated by apes, dolphins, even some dogs. Delete your video, do your research, and try again.

It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing. I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order. My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461

we don't even know why we're conscious, is it possible to be and act completely human while lacking any sort of internal experience?

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My brain has been destroyed by SSRI drugs over 31 years,but I'm now off for 22 months in protracted withdrawal. I'm an electrician and I believed from the start of the process that my brain was literally going to have to rewire itself. All the way through this healing my brain has been informing me in the form of electrical wiring dreams that I am familiar with in my job of the new new neutral connections it's making. They correspond with other symptoms that are well known in the withdrawal community during windows & waves. A cluster of electrical dreams is followed by healing symptoms like a return of extreme emotions,memories lost and intense physical symptoms,stress etc. My condition is a warning not to mess with systems we don't fully understand with drugs.

Makes sense, thanks!!

Brothers?

My daughter has a very bad case of ADHD. In elementary school, she got into the top private school in our state. We didn’t know she had ADHD. Her teachers would always say she was brilliant and talented, but she would not do her homework. By the time she got into high school it became a VERY big problem. Her inability to do her homework was illogical. It made no sense, and she was failing her classes simply because she wouldn’t do her homework. She didn’t know why she wasn’t able to do her homework. The deans were ready to kick her out of school, but decided to send her to the school psychologist first for an assessment. The psychologist quickly realized she had ADHD, but also did a multitude of comprehension tests on her, all of which she scored very high on, and her IQ score was Mensa level. Because of this diagnosis the school let her stay and bent over backwards with assistance on her homework to help her graduate. Executive dysfunction is a great problem but it does not equal unintelligent.