Understanding Consciousness

Ratandeep Singh

A pursuit to understand the inner workings of the mind

  1. 07/02/2020

    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.

  2. 07/01/2020

    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.

  3. 31/12/2019

    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

  4. 15/12/2019

    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.

  5. 14/12/2019

    Episode #23 - A recap of misery

    How do you find the next steps when the last effort failed?

  6. 29/11/2019

    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

  7. 28/11/2019

    Episode #21 - Where did the cat go?

    We understand the context of the new paper which is a study of how the brain acts as a scientist, trying new hypothesis on reality.

  8. 27/11/2019

    Episode #20 - Free Energy?

    What is the concept of free energy and what does it tell about the nature of mind?

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A pursuit to understand the inner workings of the mind

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  • Creator
    Ratandeep Singh
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ratandeep Singh
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