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I believe Steve Grossberg's perspective on consciousness contains all the good parts of Integrated Information Theory without any of the bad ones, and you should all read the book

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Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind

How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is...

5:52 AM · Nov 8, 2021

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Sounds right up your alley :)

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Nov 8, 2021

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@Plinz

Not sleeping till I finish this book.

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Looks interesting. And, I have a sincere follow up question. The description of that book says nothing about embodiment, which doesn’t square with my encounters with the concept mind. I’m wondering where you think someone like Alva Noë gets it wrong?

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Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

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Do you also have any thoughts on the new book by Anil Seth?

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Do you know how well does this book align with numenta.com/a-thousand-bra ?

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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory Of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

A Thousand Brains is a new book by Jeff Hawkins. He addresses one of science’s greatest questions on how the brain works, and what it means for the future of neuroscience, AI and even humanity, to...

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its a post grad textbook. Can you recommend a book that explains neural networks etc for layman ?

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Thanks, noted! I just finished "Being You" by

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, have you gotten to that one yet? During listening I several times thought of what you said on the topic in various interviews - a discussion between the two of you would be great, I think.

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Have you read Being You? Or any opinion on that book?

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This is quite a gem, thank you for referring it. My copy will come over the weekend, along with your book Principles of Synthetic Intelligence soon after. Should be fun to read them side by side!