Ideas of Anil Seth, by Theme
[British, fl. 2021, Professor of Neuroscience at Sussex University.]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain
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The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness
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Single neurons can carry out complex functions
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
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Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [PG]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
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Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
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Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within
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22. Metaethics / C. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics
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Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking
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