Exploring the Hard Problems of Mind and Life

Episode 5: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk


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This is the fifth of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk.


In this conversation we discussed a broad range of topics, ranging from similarities and differences in the principles of organization of insect and vertebrate nervous systems, to language and the meaning of meaning as wholistic resonance, to spatiotemporal binding/alignment via traveling waves in the hippocampus, and more.

Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the video description).


Some links of potential relevance for today's discussion:

Facebook note on brains as shared spider’s web

How Can the Brain Efficiently Build an Understanding of the Natural World | The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines

Twitter thread on language and the brain

Smolensky's Harmonium

Cortical Traveling Waves: Mechanisms and Computational Principles

Bidirectional propagation of low frequency oscillations over the human hippocampal surface 

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Exploring the Hard Problems of Mind and LifeBy Adam Safron