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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, and here is a video of Jeff Krichmar talking about some of the Darwin automata, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGi4mWymnchkhdk

Very motivational! Something to look forward to 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Thank you so much for sharing your insights. I am looking into FlatIron School at the moment. Did you complete the full-time or part-time course? I am currently working full-time at a university and wanted to gather more knowledge on the best options.

5:40 "this bootcamp changed my life.... look around me" NFS, that was the first thing I did when I clicked on the video. "one year later", had to assess the living space and then hear ya story. the passion and humility has helped me decide on whether to attend the BootCamp. glad everything worked out for you!! 💯❤

@livie the developer // Can I ask you, as a Flatiron School Grad, did you have a DSA interview for the job? If so, did FIS prepare you for it?

I’m signing up for boot camp asap

You seem pretty nerdy to me though lol 😆

Thank you at flat iron school now for SE in the self-paced program. I have a upcoming review session and a phase 1 project assessment live coding assessment. As taking MS Psychology at phoenix. ill go back and review notes and take more notes and review all the javascript codes and solutions.

Did you do a full-time Boot camp

As a black woman, I want to say thank you. I was getting overwhelmed with all this information from so many other programmers that I was losing site of my "why". Thank you for guiding me back into a positive direction.

Hi!! I'm starting flatiron in a few weeks and was wondering what prep/experience you had before hand? What are the tests like? Are they strictly code but also written comprehension multiple choice style testing of the material?

how has things been for you since graduating

Wow I am blown away at how well you explained that. I am excited to learn the languages and skills to be able to put all that together.

Thank you for sharing your experience

Was the scholarship through the school or 3rd party?

Damn Im glad I came across this, I'm in a similar spot living with my parents looking for something to do. I was on the fence with multiple bootcamps and I think you sold it for me. Thank you

This got me hype I start university of Minnesota coding boot camp in March

Love this!! I’m also a FI student so really appreciate this ty so much for sharing your experience.. get it girrlll!

Thank you for this. I am getting ready to start Flatiron next month and have been freaking out about it lol. I just recently found your channel and noticed you haven't posted in awhile. I hope you come back! I love your videos and you I seem to have a similar educational background.

Thanks 😊

’m glad you have done well for yourself but for the spiritual needs don’t go to counterfeit and demonic powers as law of atracción. Lean on your creator only and his son who was revealed and given as a door for salvation to eternal life

Thank you for sharing!

Watching this for the 3rd time.. missing you like crazy.. where are you livvy?

U look good

I don’t even need to finish the video! It was in my new home for me lol!

Happy for you but talking allot...magnets could have been another video..js

Thanks for the video!

Make shure yall enjoy what yall do, if not then the money is not worth it. Sweet story and Congrads. also pls dont get into any off the Law of Attraction stuff, yall dont know what yall geting into

is it to late lol

i like your teaching do you make lessons?

i like you lol you have some good points its lonely coding by yourself tho

This was so incredibly helpful! Watched all of your videos and missing your presence on KZbin! Noticed you haven’t made any videos recently and I hope you are okay! Sending love to you!

did u have prior knowledge? new to your channel

You're such an inspiration Olivia ! great video ❤️

Love the content, I’m 40 and starting boot camp on the 27th 🙏🏾

Olivia... what free online classes do you recommend to learn C#? I am currently enrolled at FlatIron too, with full time job and 2 kiddos and a household to maintain... you don't know how much you inspire me. When times I doubted myself, I just go to your channel and get motivated all over again. Thank You and keep posting 🙂

Why I can't find you on insta? I wanted to follow you there too.

Sounds like my experience. It is tough. It feels like I'm learning an alien language from the future. Thanks so much for sharing this!

Hi do you have an insta? I am in flatiron now…help

WOW!!! CONGRATZZZZ!!!

I’m looking to jumpstart my career in tech but I legit have no experience lol; so this video was quite helpful. I can’t wait to find a bootcamp 👌🏽

Thank you so much for your videos. When I self doubt---- I jumped to watch you so I can get inspired again~! Please keep it going.

I love your energy! Thank you for the video

So know somebody.

My company give us 1k per year just for learning new tech. Coding ain’t EZ

I only know 2 developers who I have met in my workplace and who went to school for coding (and who had been doing it since they were 10) who like/liked anime just fyi... don't necessarily add that into your stereotype. I get what you are saying but it can be offensive.

Happy for you 🙏🏼💌 I’m in a coding bootcamp right now, and hope I can manifest these blessings as you did and more!!

What boot camp did you attend?