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Frauke Sandig

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience  Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.  This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives? Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives. This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion!  AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness Umbrella Films  0:00 - Intro19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism45:33 - Changing views during lifetime53:49 - Did making the film alter your views?57:49 - ChatGPT1:04:20 - Materialist assumption1:11:00 - Science of consciousness1:20:49 - Transhumanism1:32:01 - Integrity1:36:19 - Aesthetics1:39:50 - Response to the film

<a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> to get full episodes and join the Discord community. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> This is one in a periodic series of episodes with <a href="https://braininspired.co/podcast/136/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Gomez-Marin</a>, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives? Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film <a href="https://aware-film.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness</a>, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives. This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion! <ul> <li><a href="https://aware-film.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness</a></li> <li><a href="https://umbrellafilms.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Umbrella Films</a></li> </ul> 0:00 - Intro 19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism 45:33 - Changing views during lifetime 53:49 - Did making the film alter your views? 57:49 - ChatGPT 1:04:20 - Materialist assumption 1:11:00 - Science of consciousness 1:20:49 - Transhumanism 1:32:01 - Integrity 1:36:19 - Aesthetics 1:39:50 - Response to the film

BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness

Michel Bitbol

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.  Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience  Michel Bitbol is Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Alex Gomez-Marin is a neuroscientist running his lab, The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory, at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante. We discuss phenomenology as an alternative perspective on our scientific endeavors. Although we like to believe our science is objective and explains the reality of the world we inhabit, we can't escape the fact that all of our scientific knowledge comes through our perceptions and interpretations as conscious living beings. Michel has used phenomenology to resolve many of the paradoxes that quantum mechanics generates when it is understood as a description of reality, and more recently he has applied phenomenology to the philosophy of mind and consciousness. Alex is currently trying to apply the phenomenological approach to his research on brains and behavior. Much of our conversation revolves around how phenomenology and our "normal" scientific explorations can co-exist, including the study of minds, brains, and intelligence- our own and that of other organisms. We also discuss the "blind spot" of science, the history and practice of phenomenology, various kinds of explanation, the language we use to describe things, and more. Michel's websiteAlex's Lab: The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory.Twitter: @behaviOrganisms (Alex)Related papersThe Blind Spot of NeuroscienceThe Life of BehaviorA Clash of Umwelts Related events:The Future Scientist (a conversation series) 0:00 - Intro4:32 - The Blind Spot15:53 - Phenomenology and interpretation22:51 - Personal stories: appreciating phenomenology37:42 - Quantum physics example47:16 - Scientific explanation vs. phenomenological description59:39 - How can phenomenology and science complement each other?1:08:22 - Neurophenomenology1:17:34 - Use of language1:25:46 - Mutual constraints

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> to get full episodes and join the Discord community. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Michel Bitbol is Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Alex Gomez-Marin is a neuroscientist running his lab, The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory, at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante. We discuss phenomenology as an alternative perspective on our scientific endeavors. Although we like to believe our science is objective and explains the reality of the world we inhabit, we can't escape the fact that all of our scientific knowledge comes through our perceptions and interpretations as conscious living beings. Michel has used phenomenology to resolve many of the paradoxes that quantum mechanics generates when it is understood as a description of reality, and more recently he has applied phenomenology to the philosophy of mind and consciousness. Alex is currently trying to apply the phenomenological approach to his research on brains and behavior. Much of our conversation revolves around how phenomenology and our "normal" scientific explorations can co-exist, including the study of minds, brains, and intelligence- our own and that of other organisms. We also discuss the "blind spot" of science, the history and practice of phenomenology, various kinds of explanation, the language we use to describe things, and more. <ul><li><a href="http://michel.bitbol.pagesperso-orange.fr/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michel's website</a></li><li>Alex's Lab: <a href="https://behavior-of-organisms.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory</a>.</li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/behaviOrganisms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@behaviOrganisms</a> (Alex)</li><li>Related papers<ul><li><a href="https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/organisms/article/view/16437/15864" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Blind Spot of Neuroscience</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627319307901" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Life of Behavior</a></li><li><a href="https://behavioroforganismsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/gomezmarin2019bbs.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Clash of Umwelts</a> </li></ul></li><li>Related events:<ul><li><a href="https://paricenter.com/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Future Scientist</a> (a conversation series)</li></ul></li></ul> 0:00 - Intro 4:32 - The Blind Spot 15:53 - Phenomenology and interpretation 22:51 - Personal stories: appreciating phenomenology 37:42 - Quantum physics example 47:16 - Scientific explanation vs. phenomenological description 59:39 - How can phenomenology and science complement each other? 1:08:22 - Neurophenomenology 1:17:34 - Use of language 1:25:46 - Mutual constraints

BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology