#30 – Foundations of Consciousness with Antti Revonsuo
In Algo Podcast Episode 30, Antti Revonsuo and Amjad Hussain discuss Disorders of Consciousness.
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0:00 Episode Preview
0:31 Introduction
3:59 Explaining Consciousness
6:08 Qualia
8:30 Predictive Coding & Feeling Joy and Pain
13:04 Neural Correlates of Consciousness
15:20 Neural activity is required for conscious experience
17:46 Explanatory Gap
20:05 Illusionism
22:11 Joscha Bach
25:55 Rearranging physical matter
30:24 Isomorphisms between brain activities and conscious world
32:57 Dream World
34:45 World Stimulation Mechanism – Virtual Reality
38:47 Brain does not need external world to generate consciousness
41:35 Model System For Consciousness Research
43:47 Consciousness of characters in dreams
47:30 Lucid Dreaming
49:41 Dreams simulating social world & mind reading
52:40 Online & offline dreaming
54:15 Research of constructing world simulation during sleep
55:45 Dreaming likely happens in all mammals
56:29 Theories of dreaming
58:09 Negativity bias in dream contents & nightmares
1:02:17 Threat Simulation Theory
1:08:46 Memories in dream states & reality vs. imagination
1:16:28 Dreaming content is specific to world
1:18:36 Research on Dreaming
1:23:25 Integrated experience of consciousness & testing theories against eachother
1:30:18 Online & Offline World: One Reality
1:34:47 Antti’s Research
1:35:44 Theories of Consciousness
1:36:11 Neocortex of visual consciousness
1:36:51 Multisensory correlates
1:37:32 Altered states of consciousness & general anesthesia
1:41:09 Positive dreams
1:42:58 Dream data from COVID pandemic
1:45:07 Dreams are fascinating
1:47:42 Closing thoughts
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