Understanding Consciousness Ratandeep Singh
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- Education
A pursuit to understand the inner workings of the mind
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Episode #27 - A glimpse on learning
In this episode, I talk about how Karl Friston's research shines some light on how to learn better.
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Episode #26 - A view from the inside
In the first half of this episode I discuss about what I learnt from Karl Friston's videos on youtube, namely, the predictive coding and Markov blanket. In the second half of the episode I discuss the inner world of consciousness and how metaphors are a powerful way to gain some interesting insights about the mind.
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Episode #25 - A law about other laws
Trying to understand the free energy principle is the crucial next step in trying to make sense of the theories about consciousness.
Link to research paper: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20principle%20A%20unified%20brain%20theory.pdf
Link to my video on Entropy and Maxwell's demon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnelNSyKm4 -
Episode #24 - Are you taking away my space and time?
Donald Hoffman's research has grabbed our attention and our most cherished views of reality are under doubt.
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Episode #23 - A recap of misery
How do you find the next steps when the last effort failed?
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Episode #22 - The importance of Action
We go through Bayes Theorem of Probability and try to see how the brain uses actions to learn better.
Research Paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niz012