#26 Mark Solms: feelings and consciousness

Описание: Another mind-blowing conversation, this time with Mark Solms, the neuropsychoanalist, about his feeling-based theory of consciousness, how competing homeostatic needs lead to prioritization of responding to feelings, expressing these needs internally. At about the one-hour mark, we go beyond and discuss how feelings can be understood as messages between hierarchical levels of conscious nested organisms.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:04:35 Feeling-based consciousness. Anatomy: brain-stem vs cortical models.
00:20:43 The free energy principle and active inference. Do membranes exist?
00:41:00 The mechanisms of consciousness and the role of feeling. Prioritization of needs, voluntary actions, choice. Categorically different needs lead to qualia.
01:00:19 Hierarchical levels of nested organisms and feelings as messages.
01:27:46 Engineering consciousness. Is autopoiesis necessary?

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