Re Consciousness and the Stanford "The Virtual and the Real" talk, I blogged about on Tue, May 30, 2017
David Chalmers, Symbolic Systems Program 2017 Distinguished Speaker: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/698/69825/ -
David Chalmers' TED talk herein - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/wandering-albatross-talk-on-virtual-and.html - points to a breakthrough in understanding the hard problem of consciousness by Giulio Tononi and re Integrated information theory ...
Giulio Tononi's
Integrated information theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory*
A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness
Is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-theory-of-consciousness/*
How valid is Giulio Tononi's mathematical formula for consciousness?
https://www.quora.com/How-valid-is-Giulio-Tononis-mathematical-formula-for-consciousness*
How to model this best in a 3D virtual world with avatars at the atomic and neuronal levels with species - and for students' help with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as well?
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You Retweeted
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation https://t.co/4U6Ty1WbvY from @eboyden3— Joi Ito (@Joi) June 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/Joi/status/870437397540065280
(which I re-tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - on June 2, 2017).
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