Science, Technology & the Future

Andrés Gómez-Emilsson - Path Dependence in Consciousness Science

Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, co-founder and president of the Qualia Research Institute, discusses path dependence in consciousness science. 0:00 Intro 0:27 talk: Path Dependence in Consciousness Science 1:08 Long-term future of consciousness - desirable attractor states 4:07 Hedonium, Qualia Stream, Historium 14:41 Team Consciousness value alignment 17:41 Between Wolfram & Levin 20:26 One and many at the same time 25:10 The Self as Playing a Functional and Phenomenal Role 31:10 The 6 Buddhist Realms 33:48 Symmetric & Asymmetric Coupling 36:12 Hierarchical and Dynamical System Attractors 37:04 Nonlinear Optical Circuitry 39:44 Fractal effects 40:59 The future hinges on our knowledge basis 47:40 discussion - instrumental convergences beyond Darwinism 56:51 Proxy goals 59:42 Consciousness having self awareness of it's own values (much stronger Schelling points) 1:00:57 Consciousness as embodiment agnostic 1:01:52 Values of consciousness can infiltrate the universe 1:02:30 Should we intrinsically value something without consciousness? 1:10:01 Galactic cartels fighting over packets of negentropy 1:13:40 Tradeoffs between hedonics vs qualia-stream novelty - every new mind joining the cosmic collective adds to everyone's novelty 1:16:22 Cyborg leviathan governance motivated by hedonics and novelty 1:17:10 Early levers to pull #consciousness #future #science #qualia Many thanks for tuning in! Please support SciFuture by subscribing and sharing! Buy me a coffee? https://buymeacoffee.com/tech101z Have any ideas about people to interview? Want to be notified about future events? Any comments about the STF series? Please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mr9PIfq2ZYlQsXRIn5BcLH2onbiSI7g79mOH_AFCdIk/ Kind regards, Adam Ford - Science, Technology & the Future - #SciFuture - http://scifuture.org