BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence

“There is new mathematics and physics here! Many examples from medicine and pharmacology demonstrate that drugs and toxins can alter our consciousness. What about a new understanding of how our biological receptors work? Receptors are the mi…”

“I have watched probably every single podcast that you've done, you are doing a great job with the "in-between" layman and academia - I like to call it, "For the enthusiastic layman" - Ya won't understand if you are not interested enough to…”

“It just doesn't make sense to speculate about consciousness in AI as long as we don't know the crucial step that translates physical processes into experience. At this point it could be anything. The only thing we know is that whatever expe…”

“Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Syntax is dual to semantics -- communication, messages, languages, information. All messages are dual. Excitatory is dual to inhibition. Transmitter (sender) is dual to rec…”