The Easy Solution to Consciousness - TOE's

This is an entry for a contest of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal: / theoriesofeverything (specific video for the contest is • Physics & Consciousnes...
The video tells the story of when two pioneering neuroscientists (Mark Solms and Karl Friston) ventured into the world of thermodynamics, information theory and computation, to do battle with the hard problem of consciousness.
What they propose, to the surprise of their peers is that understanding consciousness is in fact to their mind, rather easy.
Their revolutionary ideas tell us that experiences spring into our conscious awareness as primarily as feelings rather than thoughts. And this happens for the fundamental reason of helping organisms like you I decide what the most important things to for the survival of our own body as well as for the survival of our species.
#PaCE1 #interoception #consciousness
1:05 What is the Hard Problem of Consciousness?
2:30 Aim of this video
3:20 Premise of Mark Solms’ and Karl Friston’s argument
4:20 Structure of the presentation in this #PaCE1 entry
5:37 The Cortical Fallacy
8:00 Karl Friston and The Free Energy Principle (FEP)
11:24 How is The Free Energy Principle linked to consciousness
12:32 Predictive nature of perception and action (Active Inference)
14:17 Prediction Errors
14:57 Bayesian Active Inference and Markov Blankets
16:24 Solms’ & Friston conclusions and consciousness and precision weighting
19:44 Conclusion - Have Friston and Solms solved the hard mind-body problem of consciousness?
For more information on this topic:
Original Paper by Friston and Solms discovery.ucl....
ToE interview with Karl Friston on FEP
• Karl Friston: The "Met...
Active Inference Institute interview with Mark Solms on Precision Modulation • ActInf GuestStream #01...
Recent developments on allostasis and interoception
Sennesh, E., Theriault, J., Brooks, D., van de Meent, J. W., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2022). Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control. Biological Psychology, 167, 108242.

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Thank you so much for your submission! (final video announcement with winners / runner ups out now, by the way)

[@nyworker]

I don't think they've solved the hard problem but they have possibly solved and given us insight into the hard argument. Or the why of consciousness. The hard problem is not just why we have subjective feelings but rather scientifically how nature and biology gives us subjectivity from physics.

[@optinoptimist]

beautiful job communicating these ideas!!! well done!! liked and subscribed!!! i agree with so many of the points and the implications of them!! i also absolutely agree with our brain being a problem solving/future prediction/past reflection/internal reflection/etc device. the idea of consciousness emanating from the brainstem is an old one. i think the brain does some amazing things, but trying to move consciousness from one part of the brain to the other, due to observing brain states or behaviors, seems to be like feeling one part of the oven that got hotter, or stayed hotter, than the rest of the oven and just assuming that's where the heat came from rather than where it's pooling in comparison to your observation. it seems pretty obvious that things that don't even have brains, by our definition of a brain, like plants, have awareness none the less. and if there is awareness, is there not consciousness? aren't we just playing a semantics game while inside of our own version of consciousness, because our version is meta aware, and so the term "consciousness" is often subjectively assumed to be aligned with meta awareness rather than other forms of awareness? i believe all awareness is consciousness, human consciousness just happens to require a brain to enjoy in the way we enjoy it, which i would agree is a much more complex thing than many other forms of awareness are doing. and i'm fine with us calling it consciousness, as long as we can agree there's a large spectrum of what consciousness is lol

[@Interoception_InnerSense]

Thanks for the feedback. Re: the question "aren't we just playing a semantics game while inside of our own version of consciousness, because our version is meta aware, and so the term "consciousness" is often subjectively assumed to be aligned with meta awareness rather than other forms of awareness?"......I'd say yes to that! It seems to me that as a community we lack clear definitions of what we mean by consciousness, awareness, sentience and intelligence. There have been some interesting conversations on Twitter around this subject recently. I look forward to seeing what emerges.

[@optinoptimist]

@@Interoception_InnerSense absolutely!! so much to look forward to learning about the world, and ourselves, i can't help but think that there's gonna be huge things in the near future! thanks for the response!! stay well!! keep making this awesome content!!!

[@koldourrutia]

The Hidden Spring by Salms & Frinston is a complete and beautiful theory(I admire them for their work and findings) ….However, to me, rather than explaining CONCIOUSNESS, It explains the holistic automatic & intrinsic mecanism of the collective & scalar celular intelligence of LIFE… which is something in what Michael Levin also works….CONCIOUSNESS IS NOT A LIFE BELONGING..IT IS, AS RUPERT SPIRA POINTS OUT: “ THAT WHERE/WHICH/WHEN/WHAT, EVERYTHING IS BEING CREATED, APPEARS AND IS KNOWN.

[@derrickv7640]

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