Christof Koch: Consciousness and its Place in Nature

Christof Koch
Consciousness and its Place in Nature
May 31, 2019 - University of Oregon - Eugene

Christof Koch, Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, will give a talk titled “Consciousness and its Place in Nature” as the first in an annual lecture series sponsored by the University of Oregon's Institute of Neuroscience.

Koch joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became president in 2015. He has published extensively, and his writings and interests integrate theoretical, computational, and experimental neuroscience with philosophy and contemporary trends, in particular, artificial intelligence.

[LCbrj]

Simply Brilliant highly recommend seeing this a few times.

[JM-corf]

When I'm playing with video feedback the most interesting moments are NOT when the camera is staring 100% into itself, nor 100% outside of itself, but this fine line between self and other. Like surfing the edges of the mandlebrot set. Consciousness has always been that to me.

[StephenPaulKing]

The physical structure implements consciousness, it gives rise to it just as much as the CPUs of our computers give rise to the image on the screen.

[DonnyLeeDuke]

Trying to get this photopoem into Christof's hands, but he's not contactable by the public, or a poet either for that matter, that I can yet find anyway. The poem was partly inspired by one of his articles, "Is Consciousness Universal" Scientific American, 2014. The poem: @t

[StephenPaulKing]

Phi is a measure of the expressiveness of consciousness, the degrees of freedom and distinctions of thoughts, not the awareness of thoughts itself.

[tixch]

experience is not equal to consciousness.

[juan-fernandogomez-molina]

interesting...we have published a couple of these ideas some years ago...

[ErnestOfGaia]

He doesn't describe DMT very well

[kidsdocpediatrics]

Such absolute Nonsense!!! "Consciousness is an internal causal power" -- What does that even mean? Even he couldn't explain this to himself. Sad that he was trained by Crick....what a waste!