#anil seth

[csmsdust]

Dance for Two by Alan Lightman

Being You by Anil Seth

How story, God, and Your Lying Brain Turn Chaos into Order by Nancy Mimeles Carey

Your Brain is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano

Some of the books I've read recently + the covers

[wildcat2030]

A science of consciousness should explain how the various properties of consciousness depend on, and relate to, the operations of the neuronal wetware inside our heads. I say wetware to underline brains are not just computers made of meat. They are chemical machines as much as they are electrical networks. Every brain that has ever existed has been part of a living body, embedded in and interacting with its environment—an environment which in many cases contains other embodied brains. Explaining the properties of consciousness in terms of biophysical mechanisms requires understanding brains—and conscious minds—as embodied and embedded systems.

We Are Beast Machines - Nautilus | Science Connected

[themedicalstate]

If hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception, then perception right here and right now is also a kind of hallucination, but a controlled hallucination in which the brain’s predictions are being reined in by sensory information from the world. In fact, we’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.

Anil Seth Ph.D., Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality

[brudnopis]

Anil Seth,  Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

[scogito]

“É solo che quando siamo tutti d’accordo sull’allucinazione, la chiamiamo realtà”

Genitori che vogliono dai figli ciò che loro stessi non sono e non fanno. Insegnanti che pretendono dagli studenti ciò che loro stessi non fanno e non dicono. Stato che chiede ai cittadini ciò che non dimostra e non agisce.

Questo mondo è contorto perché chi lo popola cerca fuori tutto quello che non sa essere dentro. Fino a quando si crederà che la realtà è ciò che si manifesta al di là di noi stessi, siamo semplicemente fottuti.

Il video di Anil Seth è sottotitolato, fate ricerche per capire chi è e cosa fa. Anche se già da questi 15 minuti si capisce tutto.

[maaarine]

Anil Seth:

“One of the main jobs of the brain is to perceive both the body and the world so that the organism can act within the world.

It’s tempting to think of perception as this bottom-up process, where sensory data comes in through the senses, and is then read out by the self, which sits somewhere inside the skull.

But that’s a pretty unsatisfying view, because the world that we perceive is only indirectly related to what, if anything, is actually out there in the world.

I mean there are no colors actually out there, colors are something constructed by the brain. 

There was literature already on perception as a predictive act. I don’t mean predicting the future.

I mean prediction in the sense of making a best guess about what caused sensory inputs.

Prediction in this sense is more like filling in missing data, or making an inference.

We get all this sensory data, but it doesn’t come with labels about where it’s from, or what kind of sensory data it is.

But we end up perceiving this world full of structured objects, with particular properties.

This idea is that perception really depends on these top-down predictions that the brain is always bringing to bear to give shape and form to the sensory data that comes in.

This idea goes way back to Plato even, with the shadows on the cave, and people thinking those are real.

(…)

Another way of thinking about perception is through control.

There’s literature from 20th century cybernetics, one of the early progenitors of AI, that talked about the importance of feedback for control.

And the importance of having predictive models for control, because then you can even deploy anticipatory control, you can prevent something from deviating before it has deviated.

If you think about perception of the body, ultimately you want to keep the body alive.

So there are things like blood pressure, heart rate, lots of physiological variables that have to maintain themselves within pretty tight ranges.

That’s what perception of the body is for, for controlling and regulating the internal milieu.

That’s why when we experience the body, we don’t experience objects with shapes.

We experience how well this physiological regulation of the body is going. Is it going well or badly? Is it likely to be going well or badly in the future?

All the mechanisms of perception, of the self or the world, they all stem from a basic imperative to keep the body alive.”

Source: Mind & Life: Anil Seth - How Our Minds Predict Our Reality

[infinitemovielist]

[messenjaschin]

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience.