Pascal Wallisch, professor of data science, psychology and neural science at New York University, returns in chapter two to talk about psychophysics, Gustav Fechner, stimulus vs. perception, brain diversity, psychopaths, psychedelics, movie preferences, consciousness, linguistics and the Turing Test!

Chapter One with Pascal: https://youtu.be/bzFVdg6WjKUPascal: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/pascal-wallisch.html

SHOW NOTES:

1) 'Energy, Quanta, and Vision' by Hecht, Shlaer and Pirenne: https://www.cns.nyu.edu/csh/csh06/PDFs/Hecht1942.pdf

2) Brief overview of inner and outer psychophysics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11954556/

3) Paper on similarity between CNNs and neurons: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18957212/Also attached.

4) Elite athletes and visual cortex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12765616/ &https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1728869X24000789

5) Paper on acid and other psychedelics and how they change perception: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1518377113

6) Paper on 10 emotional responses by psychopaths: https://www.foxlabnyu.com/research-projects/psychopathy

7) Paper on how 5 seconds is enough when you listen to music: https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/40/3/220/195231/The-Whole-is-Not-Different-From-its-PartsMusic?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:28 Entropy

3:57 Gustav Fechner

8:08 Psychophysics

13:18 Fechner’s Law

15:59 Stimulus vs. Perception

23:32 Brain Diversity

27:39 Psychedelics

31:26 Psychopaths

45:37 Movie Preferences

50:28 Horror Movies

53:19 Beauty & Neuroaesthetics

56:56 Consciousness

1:04:39 The Trolley Problem

1:14:14 AI Consciousness

1:17:59 Linguistics

1:27:18 The Turing Test

1:31:15 Physics

1:36:27 Information Realism

1:40:33 Lego Interpretation

1:41:27 Advice & Meaning of Life

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