Adventures in Awareness | Bernardo Kastrup on Metacognition #2: Integrated Information Theory & Markov Blankets @adventuresinawareness | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
An in-depth discussion with Bernardo on metacognition, Integrated Information Theory, and Markov Blankets. This video is an excerpt from our online discussion series 'With Reality in Mind'.


Bernardo discusses:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:40:00 - Analytic Idealism & IIT - Metacognition, Dissociation, Re-entrant Loops & Vertices
00:08:20 - Brain correlation in IIT - Hot area of the brain, Parietal lobe
00:25:00 - Markov Blankets - Free Energy Principle & the Dashboard
00:31:45 - Markov Blanket definition
00:43:35 - What is information?
01:04:10 - Combination Problem & IIT - Cognitive systems vs. Physicalism; electrons, protons & boundaries
01:11:48 - Meditation techniques & Predictive processing
01:14:51 - Mind at large & Mathematics - is mathematics a language beyond space & time?
01:24:05 - Euler's formula / Euler's equation & the language of mathematics
01:27:30 - Mathematics is psychological
01:33:54 - Tautological expansion
01:39:49 - Mathematics is grounded in mental states - Experiential states & Archetypes
01:47:10 - Distinction between capability & property
1:58:10 - Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem


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