The ultimate goal of this podcast is understanding what it means to be alive, conscious, and free (to choose life). In the first series of interviews, Barry Komisaruk and I discuss biological rhythms, excitation-inhibition balances, self-organized criticality, the nature(s) of pleasure and pain, consciousness, agency, and more. Future podcasts will have discussions with additional scholars, with the goal of going into greater depth than is common practice. Some conversations will be brief, a ...
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Episode 8: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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45:32This is the 8th of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. We discussed the nature(s) of informational and physical flows in mind and life, the potentially synesthetic affective nature of all perception, and ways in which core body processes may provide scaffolding for all other aspects of the evolution and development of minds. Next week: …
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Episode 7: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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59:57This is the 7th of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. This conversation continued our exploration on the nature(s) of body maps in brain and mind, going more deeply into how these may inform our understanding of the physical and computational substrates of consciousness. Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the v…
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Episode 6: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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1:00:43This is the 6th of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. This conversation focused on the nature(s) of body maps in brain and mind, including some initial discussions of how these may inform our understanding of the physical and computational substrates of consciousness. Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the vide…
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Episode 5: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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1:02:00This is the fifth of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. In this conversation we discussed a broad range of topics, ranging from similarities and differences in the principles of organization of insect and vertebrate nervous systems, to language and the meaning of meaning as wholistic resonance, to spatiotemporal binding/alignment via t…
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Episode 4: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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56:10This is the fourth of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the video description). Some links of potential relevance for today's discussion: Entwinement - I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter (publicism.info) Wedding Haka - Subtitled & translated - YouTube See - Jason Mom…
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Episode 3: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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52:56This is the third of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the video description): Some links of potential relevance for today's discussion: When frequencies never synchronize: The golden mean and the resting EEG - ScienceDirect Breathing is coupled with voluntary action and the …
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Episode 2: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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42:19This is the second of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. Today we went into greater detail on the mechanisms and significance(s) of different forms of neural synchrony. This one "gets into the weeds," which will provide an increasingly stable foundation for what's to come. What's to come? We are gradually working our way to describing …
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Episode 1: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk
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38:53This is the first of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk. We are following up on previous discussions of the nature of biological rhythms, excitation-inhibition balances, self-organized criticality, the nature(s) of pleasure and pain, consciousness, agency, and more. In the coming weeks and months we will explore all of these topics (and…
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