Christof Koch | What Does a Theory of Consciousness Need to Explain?

Recorded on March 7, 2024 at the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[OfCourseICan]

Well I'm no psychologist or Neuro Scientist, just an old 71 year old Aussie dude who has been searching for the answer.
And from gleaning what all these experts espouse, I have deduced : they just don't know!
What I do know is : that everyone is miserable or depressed, it is just the extent!
I do know that out of the blue all of sudden bizarre uneasy thoughts enter the mind and try to sabotage you.
When you are aware of this; which is easier said than done, you can choose to dwell on those sabotaging thoughts or move on!

[ROForeverMan]

For anyone interested in consciousness see my papers like How Self-Reference Builds the World author Cosmin Visan.

[ALavin-enkr]

It is likely that consciousness is fundamental and that mind emerges with quantum events. Consciousness is definitely not elemental; all else is, so it is definitely fundamental; predating the elemental and quantum events.

[buglepong]

it seems to me the language is just too loaded. "consciousness" in some way presumes embodiment, which is why AI has none but even simple animals do. ironically consciousness is proven by something being able to inflict pain as a response on the observing consciousness. if it werent for this ability, the logical epistemological stance is always solipsism.