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HN commenters recommend it as a clear, in-depth lecture on consciousness as a process of prediction.
Neuroscientist Anil Seth gives a Royal Institution lecture on the science of consciousness. He separates conscious level, content and self, and argues that experience arises from the brain's predictive inference.
“And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great” (HN, 2017)
World Science Festival has a slew of really awesome talks etc on this subject posted to youtube: [link] And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great: [this video] Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett: [link]
Really great talk on neuroscience of consciousness
If you find the topic of consciousness interesting, here is an interesting neuroscientist's talk on consciousness. The idea that we can measure levels of consciousness as brain scanning tools become available and how consciousness may just be a "prediction process/function/tool". It's not "I think therefore I am", but "I predict, therefore I am". [this video]
Consciousness as a prediction process, measurable levels
I remember seeing this on hn before. The current thesis is that the brain ( consciousness ) is a predicting machine. A very interesting lecture by a neuroscientist. [this video]
If you are interested in the brain, there are good royal institute lectures on youtube. The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth [this video] The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire [link] Also, any book by oliver sacks is great if you'd rather read books rather than watch lectures.
The author's talk at the Royal Institute is here [this video] Overall, I'd say we are no closer to understanding consciousness than we were 30 years ago. As a science, we are still poking at the brain to gather data and proposing hand-wavy models of low level behavior. As philosophy, we still don't agree on what the phenomenon we need to study is. My gut feeling is that consciousness/intelligence is an emergent phenomenon of the physical brain (a very high-dimensional non-linear system not amenable to reductionism) and that the simplest model of the brain will be too complex for our brains to understand.
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