BS 163 Christof Koch on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

Christof Koch returns to Brain Science for the 3rd time and in this episode he shares his new book The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed. He tells us why he doesn't think the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are enough to explain subjective experience and he gives us a brief overview of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of Consciousness.

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[belliotrungy]

Hahaha what if IIT and GWT merge instead much like Ginger Koch. Meta meta meta thresholds meet Hegel. As a paraplegic I'm connected to a living being I'm not fully aware of - but I constantly feel "haunted" and search for external ghosts... Only when I address my legs much like walking a dog does the exorcism work ☺️ it's very distracting otherwise I can never focus.

[raresmircea]

You should bring the guys from Qualia Research Institute, Andres Gomez Emilsson and Mike Johnson, to talk about valence and other related aspects like the threat of a "Disneyland without children"