Emil

When tragedy strikes a family of dogs…do you think the other dogs offer their “thoughts and prayers”?

Dogs are cooperative breeders like humans are.  So, a human baby will look around at all the people in the vicinity, as if soliciting care, and is normally cared for by multiple people.  In contrast, an ape or monkey baby clings tight to its mother for the first six months or so of its life.

I was reasonably conscious of having posted it before but it is worth another look 🙂 I spent two full days at the Schrodinger lectures.  Time and money well spent.

Did you get to see the book link in today’s school?

Thanks to Reg (in 10NOV’19 Sunday School) for a video entitled Christof Koch: The Future of Consciousness – Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Biology

Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
Link to Scientific American article

Excerpts:

[…] In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains.

[…] A magnetic pulse was delivered to the receiver using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)…

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Unseen wrote:
Can androids dream of electric sheep?

@Unseen, I apologize for my first, rambling response to your post, and/so following is more to the point. [PopeBeanie edit: I moved that post out of this topic because I think it was distractingly too wordy.]

That is a really important question, and I think that since we don’t know if/how we’ll…[Read more]

I bought 2 tickets before I finished reading that list!!  Took 2 days of work to attend 🙂 Got a meet and greet with Dan Dennett.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
List of speakers here with several talks that are relevant (or just interesting). 5 Nobel Laureates among them.

That is an awesome and challenging list! I’ll first see what I can find and share having to do with specialized areas of the brain.

So we can study “development” of consciousness at the individual level prenatally and when one is growing up and growing old, over thousands of years of human cultural evolution, at the human and primate species level genetically, or over millions of years of mammalian and other animal evolution.

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Thanks Reg!

Related to my previous post…

I think it’s useful to know that Jaak sorted his primal list largely based on the order in which they probably evolved in brains, so it also reflects largely on which parts of the brain have the “deepest” physiology and evolved usage.

SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, LUST, CARE, PANIC,  PLAY.

More advanced…[Read more]

I mentioned this before but just in case it was missed, here is the final talk by Dan Dennett at a series of lectures given in Dublin last year. (Start at 7:00 if you want).

List of speakers here with several talks that are relevant (or just interesting). 5 Nobel Laureates among them.

First, some terms and concepts, to highlight the underlying binary nature of how the nervous system and brain operate, although some of you may want to skip the details and jump into the video.

• Our brain is a complex signal processor that evolved from simpler brains, that evolved from simple sensory and control circuits.
• Brains receive sensory…

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PopeBeanie note, 15 Jan 2020: I moved the post below to this topic, from the topic blah blah, because I realized how rambling it was, and because I wrote a better — or at least a shorter — reply to Unseen.

Unseen wrote:
[…] so if one of these Turing-humans gave you art and it was good enough to be bought and sold on the fine art market,…

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