Joscha Bach Λ Karl Friston: Ai, Death, Self, God, Consciousness

Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal delve into death, neuroscientific models of Ai, God, and consciousness. SPONSORS: - HelloFresh: Go to https://HelloFresh.com/theoriesofever... and use code theoriesofeverythingfree for FREE breakfast for life! TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 Introduction - 00:01:47 Karl and Joscha's new paper - 00:09:13 Sentience vs. consciousness vs. The Self - 00:21:00 Self-organization, thingness, and self-evidencing - 00:29:02 Overlapping realities and physics as art - 00:41:05 Mortal computation and substrate-agnostic Ai - 00:56:38 Beyond Von Neumann architectures - 01:00:23 Ai surpassing human researchers - 01:20:34 Exploring vs. Exploiting (the risk of curiosity in academia) - 01:27:02 Incompleteness and interdependence - 01:32:25 Defining consciousness - 01:53:36 Multiple overlapping consciousnesses - 02:03:03 Unified experience and schizophrenia "insights" - 02:10:16 Psychedelic experiences - 02:22:20 Institutional rot in science - 02:23:31 OpenAI CEO controversy - 02:32:22 Existential crises as one delves into consciousness - 02:35:06 Podcast wrap-up NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don't necessarily mirror my own. There's a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist. THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel.   - Patreon:  / curtjaimungal  (early access to ad-free audio episodes!)  - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE  - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE  - Twitter:  / toewithcurt    - Discord Invite:  / discord    - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast...  - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP  - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9...  - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything:  / theoriesofeverything    - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED:  - Mortal Computation, a Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence (Karl Friston): https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589  - A Path to Generative Artificial Selves (Joscha Bach and Liane Gabora): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y3tzs  - Podcast w/ Joshua on TOE (solo): https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI  - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA  - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & John Vervaeke on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4  - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A  - Podcast w/ Joscha Bach & Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww  - Podcast w/ Karl Friston solo on TOE: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M  - Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw  - Podcast w/ Karl Friston & Anna Lemke on TOE: COMING  - Podcast w/ Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc  - Podcast w/ Chris Fields on TOE: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw  - I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter): https://amzn.to/3GGqjpM