The Future of the Mind

Hour long video of a talk about his book “The Future of the Mind”.

This is a bit long for how useful it is, but some of the remarks led to other references.

Notes

• memories have been uploaded into a mind
• telling lie involves more brain than the truth (knowing the truth, coming up with consistent, believable lie)
• blood drains from prefrontal cortex of men when looking at beautiful women
• Neurosky body and mind sensors
• recording/decoding a thought/dream:
  • Jack Gallant lab; Kamitani lab
• MRI size of a briefcase created now
  • smallest MRI physically possible is mobile phone sized
• brain initiative 1 billion dollars: Brain 2.0 - connectome
• induce “hyper religiousity” through a helmet
  • feel like your in the presence of a great spirit
• consciousness
  • the continuous creation of a model that describes our place in space time and relationship to others to be used to predict the future
  • 1 unit: a single feedback loop
    • ex: thermometer
  • flower has maybe 10 units of consciousness: light, water, gravity, temperature, etc
• reptile brain: level 1: your place in space
• mammalian: level 2: emotions - where you are socially
• humans: level 3: where are in the future
  • joke: punchline is different from weakly expected outcome
• level 4:
  • better predictions of the future?
  • faster adaption and canging of predictions
  • less bias towards desired outcomes
  • less ignorance of undesired outcomes
  • better at keeping more options open
    • Alex Wissner-Gross: F = T ∇ Sτ
• one measure that correlates with success:
  • delayed gratification: indicating level 3 consciousness
• brain doesn’t look at all like a computer