CogNation
Discussions on the future of brain science and technology.
We found 3 episodes of CogNation with the tag “consciousness”.
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Episode 44: Daniel Sternberg: The State of Artificial Intelligence
February 15th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 22 mins
ai, artificial intelligence, brains, chatgpt, cognition, consciousness, dall-e-2, machine learning, neural networks
We talk to Dr. Daniel Sternberg, head of data at Notion Labs, about how to understand new developments in artificial intelligence like DALL-E-2 and chatgpt.
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Episode 32: On Consciousness with Bernard Baars
January 2nd, 2021 | Season 2 | 1 hr 14 mins
baars, bernard baars, brain, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, global workspace theory, philosophy
Joe and Rolf talk to Dr. Bernard Baars, a leader in the field of consciousness research. Dr. Baars has recently published "On Consciousness", which is a compendium on his work integrating research in psychology and neuroscience on what consciousness is and how it functions.
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Episode 22: The Neuroscience of Free Will: Guest Aaron Schurger
December 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 57 mins 12 secs
conscious will, consciousness, free will, libet, neuroscience, philosophy, schurger
Guest Dr. Aaron Schurger talks to us about his research on the meaning of the "readiness potential", which has been referred to as "the brain signature of the will". Although this neural signal was already famous from research in the 1960s, it was Benjamin Libet's infamous experiments in the 1980s that proportedly showed that the readiness potential preceded an act of free will by a few hundred milliseconds. More recently (in press), Dr. Schurger and his colleagues have convincingly demonstrated that the readiness potential is not in fact predictive of an act of free will, but instead comes from a lack of a proper experimental control.