Models of Consciousness Conferences Courses

Autodiagnosis and the Dynamical Emergence Theory of Basic Consciousness

Explores the Dynamical Emergence Theory of consciousness, proposing that basic awareness arises from a system's ability to intrinsically discern its own states through dynamic autodiagnosis.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness

Explore the Conscious Turing Machine model and its insights into consciousness phenomena, including blindsight, inattentional blindness, and free will.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Consciousness as We Know It - A View from Biology

Exploring biological consciousness through evolutionary approach, focusing on unlimited associative learning as a marker for minimal consciousness in living beings.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Why Current AI and Neuroscience Fail to Explain Ancient Forms of Spatial Reasoning

Exploring limitations of AI and neuroscience in replicating spatial reasoning and mathematical consciousness, emphasizing evolutionary origins and diverse cognitive phenomena across species.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Information Cohomology and Probabilistic Topos for Consciousness Modeling - From Elementary Perception to Machine Learning

Explores consciousness through information theory and algebraic topology, proposing a monadic-panpsychic framework and synthesizing major consciousness models within a formal Gestalt theory.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Moving Beyond Integration and Differentiation in Measures of Neural Dynamics

Explores new mathematical approaches to measure neural complexity, introducing O-information and a formalism for decomposing information dynamics, advancing understanding of conscious states.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Consciousness, Metacausation and Metadynamism

Exploring consciousness through pre-reflective auto-sensitivity, metacausation, and metadynamism. Proposes a radical view of consciousness as a property of physical processes involving direct causal sensitivity to inner causation.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Computing Meaning from Conceptual Structures in Integrated Information Theory

Explores computing compositional meaning in Integrated Information Theory using category theory and distributional semantics, addressing the role of meaning in conscious experience.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

AI, Consciousness, Computation, and Physical Law

Exploring the intersection of AI, consciousness, and physics, Sir Roger Penrose challenges computational theories of mind and proposes a quantum-based model of consciousness.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Integrated Information Theory - A Perspective on Weak and Strong Versions

Explores 'weak' and 'strong' versions of Integrated Information Theory, discussing its potential to explain consciousness and highlighting key empirical evidence and theoretical challenges.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

An ESR Model of Consciousness

Exploring epistemic structural realism as a framework for studying consciousness and its neurophysiological bases, emphasizing relations and structural continuity in theoretical models.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Statistical Mechanics of Consciousness - Maximization of Information Content of Neuronal Networks Is Associated With Conscious Awareness

Explore statistical mechanics approach to consciousness, examining brain network complexity and information processing optimization in conscious vs. unconscious states.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Searching for Physical Models of the Evolution of Consciousness

Exploring physical models for consciousness evolution, addressing challenges in explaining its advantageous features within materialist Darwinian theory and examining alternative possibilities.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Quantum Mechanics and the Consistency of Conscious Experience

Explores quantum mechanics' impact on conscious experience, discussing Wigner's friend and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments. Proposes a 4D constraint-based approach to resolve concerns about determinateness and intersubjective consistency.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Model for Perceptual States

Mathematical model for 3D perception from 2D data, exploring geometric spectra and eigenstates. Proposes a framework for understanding consciousness through higher-order universality and information processing.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk