Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more
· 1 h 05 min
Episode Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more
This is a ~1 hour 5 minute working conversation with Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en), Karl Friston (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q_4u0aoAAAAJ&hl=en), and Thomas Pollak (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/thomas-pollak) starting on the topic of variable degrees of introspection in natural and synthetic agents, and how that looks from the active inference framework, and moves into related topics of application of cognitive plasticity to regenerative biology.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Optimal introspection in agents
(12:56) Consciousness, feeling, clinical introspection
(24:44) Controlling preferences and desires
(35:19) Modifying prior preferences therapeutically
(42:04) Regeneration, biodomes, cellular priors
(52:46) Life missions and pathology
(59:08) Reboots, psychedelics, guided plasticity
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