Showing posts with label cognitive science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cognitive science. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 April 2017

Music for the Evolution of Consciousness...

 A collection of songs that we feel can assist with the evolution of consciousness. Includes songs that have higher wisdom in their lyrics, songs that are the artist's message to humanity or a specific group of people, and songs with lyrics that were written to inspire, empower, or uplift. 

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We will review them and then consider adding them to it if they resonate. Thank you.

Music for the Evolution of Consciousness - YouTube

Friday, 14 April 2017

What Can Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?

What Can Physics Tell Us About Consciousness? -- ChrisFields - YouTube



Physics and particularly quantum physics are often invoked in discussions of consciousness.

But what can physics actually tell us?

I will first discuss what physics does not tell us: physics does not provide any criteria with which to distinguish conscious systems from non-conscious systems. As far as physics is concerned, consciousness is like free will - it characterizes
either nothing or everything. Since we are conscious, it is reasonable to regard everything else as conscious, too.

If we make this assumption, the question of interest becomes: what systems
are conscious of what?

Physics is fundamentally a theory of interaction, so it can tell us a lot about this. The first thing it tells us is that being conscious of something requires expending energy. How much energy a system can expend determines how much it can be conscious of. This energy requirement has surprising consequences, some of which I will describe.

Source: Youtube

Saturday, 25 April 2015

Is Artificial Intelligence Here? What happens when they're smarter than humans?

 

Artificial intelligence has been heading in one direction for 60 years according to Financial Times West Coast Editor, Richard Waters.  And that direction is for the technology becoming, "as smart as people."

In this respect, the history of AI has been one of disappointment, as the early practitioners were way ahead of themselves in terms of the capabilities they could achieve. This was especially pronounced in the so-called AI Winter of the 80's and 90's, when it seemed that the HAL 9000 system of the movies was never going to be achieved... Read More>>>

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