Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil) | Have Scientists Solved Consciousness? Introducing the PCM, a scientific theory of consciousness. @PhilHalper1 | Uploaded December 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
What is consciousness? Can science explain consciousness? The worlds most cited neuroscientist Karl Friston and colleagues David Rudrauf and Ken Wiliford explain their new theory of consciousness and its links to AI and VR. According to Wired magazine Friston is "the genius neuroscientist who may hold the keys to true AI" and in this film we will explain how the model may do that and much more.
Topics discussed are:
00: Introduction
00:43 Beginnings
2:50What is consciousness?
3:48How can science tackle the subjective?
5:03 Answering critics of a scientific approach to consciousness
5:30 What is the free energy principle ?
7:58 What is active inference?
9:46 What is projective geometry ?
11:34 The PCM explained
14:40 Contrast with Tenoni's IIT
17:31 Consciousness in animals and AI
25:18 Virtual Reality
27:55 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
29:33 Experimental Testing
38:46 Autism, Clinical Implications and Pyschopathologies
41:28 The future of the model