PickVidsBest Consciousness & cognition Videos
The 60 Consciousness & cognition videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 16 intermediate, 39 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Lex Fridman, The Royal Institution.
Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
A clip of psychologist Jordan Peterson lecturing on intelligence and IQ, covering how it is defined and its correlation with academic and work success.
Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)
Joscha Bach's 31c3 talk argues that the mind should be understood as an information-processing system and that even the physical universe can be seen as computational.
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)
Andres Gomez Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute presents a model of DMT experiences using hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems theory.
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85
Lex Fridman interviews physicist Roger Penrose on consciousness, the limits of computation, quantum mechanics and his cyclic cosmology.
Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"
Noam Chomsky's 2011 University of Oslo lecture on Newton's contributions to the study of mind.
Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston
Neuroscientist Karl Friston gives a 15-minute talk on the free energy principle, covering Markov blankets, Bayesian model evidence and global brain theories.
The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber
A dialogue with Gary Weber on the default mode network, meditation and non-dual awakening, with discussion of psychedelics, thought and time.
Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
Joscha Bach's 32C3 talk applies computational theories of mind to questions of meaning, emotion, and love, asking how computation can explain irrational-seeming human experience.
Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein
Douglas Hofstadter lectures at Uppsala University on how analogy and daring thinking drove Einstein's discovery of light quanta.
I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)
An artist describes discovering she has aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, and how it affects her work.
Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
Bloomberg Technology interviews Google engineer Blake Lemoine about the experiments that led him to believe LaMDA was sentient and why he was placed on administrative leave.
Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN
A 2020 UC San Diego event with Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff presenting their Orch OR theory that consciousness arises from quantum processes in brain microtubules, followed by a conversation with Roger Bingham.
The Braitenberg Vehicles
Brian Douglas introduces Braitenberg vehicles, simple robots whose sensors are wired directly to motors yet show surprisingly lifelike behavior.
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
Sebastian Seung's TED talk introduces the connectome, the map of neural connections he argues defines each person.
The Future Of Reasoning
Vsauce explores how human reasoning works, drawing on the social theory of reason and the extended mind thesis, made in partnership with Bill Gates around climate change.
Swami Sarvapriyananda at IITK - "Who Am I?" according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1
A lecture by Swami Sarvapriyananda at IIT Kanpur on the Mandukya Upanishad and the question 'Who am I?'.
Is Your Red The Same as My Red?
Vsauce explores qualia and whether different people experience colors the same way.
The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett
Philosopher Dan Dennett argues in a TED talk that we do not understand our own consciousness and that our brains often fool us.
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues in this TED talk that perception is a controlled hallucination: the brain constantly predicts the world and our shared agreement is what we call reality.
Why Teleportation Would Kill You
CGP Grey asks whether Star Trek-style teleportation would kill you and recreate a copy, working through the philosophy of identity and the Ship of Theseus.
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
Lex Fridman talks with Tufts biologist Michael Levin about bioelectricity, embryogenesis, xenobots and how cells collectively pursue goals.
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google
John Searle's Talk at Google on consciousness and artificial intelligence, hosted by Google's Singularity Network.
Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain
PBS Space Time examines Roger Penrose's idea that consciousness arises from quantum processes in the brain, and reviews new evidence about microtubules.
Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science?
Sabine Hossenfelder explains superdeterminism as an interpretation of quantum mechanics, addressing common objections and misconceptions, including the worry that it kills free will or science.