"It's a speech that was very categorical... and given that I think we agree we know very little about how memory is stored, perhaps we don't need to be quite so rigid at this point in time. But everything it said was wrong" I mean, I don't know if he's making an ironic and self depricating joke, or he doesn't realise how hypocritical he's being. I sense the latter.
Why did he have to show a car crash scene? Nasty and not needed. Seriously that’s just irresponsible and bizarre and pointless and he keeps a flipped over car with rescue workers obviously desperate to save someone who is likely devastatingly hurt up on the screen for many minutes like a total scumbag to make us imagine it. Ugly stuff and no needed and takes the quality of this presentation way way down. There’s enough pain and horror without slipping it in like that
@@fVNzO extremely jaded comment on my comment. Not everyone is totally desensitized and suffering still registers- with human beings who don’t live in it as entertainment. And the fact you won’t even allow the idea is a bit “unhinged” (can you even think outside of buzzwords and your feed) in my book
@@lisaj2269 It's a fantastic word and it clearly conveyed my opinion. You even got slightly riled up over it. That means the word is exceedingly effective and i used it well for it's purpose. Regards.
Absolute rubbish. There is no demonstrable relation between neurological analyses and psychological constructs (if one differentiates psychology -- subjective experience -- from biology -- behavioral manifestations). The level of scholarship on display from neuroscientific analyses of psychological phenomena is indicative of the poor state of scholarship in both disciplines (BTW: I, along with Gazzaniga and Kihsltrom) introduced neuro to social/personality -- not Cacioppo or any other claimant -- in 1993 and again in 1998). Cacioppo's claim to such "fame" is that he used the word in a paper in @ 1991. So, my critique is grounded in reasoned argument (read: a multitude of peer-reviewed papers), not sour grapes). BTW: I am willing to wager that the overwhelming majority of neuroscientists taking psychology (or economics, or literature, or theology, etc.) as their target have virtually no idea what makes X a science.
Given the global pandemic of economic inequality, this should be viewed by all public officials around the world. The two researchers should be invited to the UN.
Mr. Ryan obviously has a sincere desire to understand the mind and the brain, and concise understandings. I wonder whether ruling out the origin of consciousness as being outside the brain stunts the permitted methodology. And stunts the imagination. He appeals us to stick to the facts...what are the facts of the matter?
Meanwhile with 57 i only have a good sleep quality during the transitional seasons Spring & Autumn. Summer ( too hot ) and Winters ( Light & vitamin D deprivation) mess up my sleeping patterns. In Winter it`s the worst meanwhile.
Thank you for the educational video. No one talks about menopause and how it wakes women up all night long with a timed hot flash compared to a contraction every 2 hours on the minute all night long, and for 10 years! How can I get a good 8 hours of sleep? How is this in the world of sleep and aging, and memory loss, and what can we do about it? I miss sleeping!
Wonder about the affect of serotonin. This is made in virtually every plant and animal. It has massive benefits, and it may be directly connected to or helped made by our micro biome in the gut during sleep. It may be so important that it's the reason living things sleep.
Suggestion that a key part of the need for sleep is the body's need to make serotonin, which it does in a symbiotic relationship with gut bacteria in the large intestine. We sleep to first produce serotonin, then to draw it into the body through the extraction of water in the large intestine. Though it can be synthesized, there seems to be a major difference in the health benefits from the micro made serotonin, and the artificially made serotonin. Here's some notes on both how important serotonin is and how widespread it is in all living things. Besides mammals, serotonin is found in all bilateral animals including worms and insects,[19] as well as in fungi and in plants.[20] Serotonin's presence in insect venoms and plant spines serves to cause pain, which is a side-effect of serotonin injection.[21][22] Serotonin is produced by pathogenic amoebae, and its effect in the human gut is diarrhea.[23] Its widespread presence in many seeds and fruits may serve to stimulate the digestive tract into expelling the seeds.[24] Gut bacteria manufacture about 95 percent of the body's supply of serotonin, which influences both mood and GI activity.
In the waking state, thoughts come 'automatically' in our minds. For example, i myself don't know what thought will come into my mind say after 10 minutes, 20 minutes etc. When thoughts come automatically to our mind, it 'seems' to us that we have consciouly 'thought' them. Similarly, while sleeping also thoughts come 'automatically' to our minds.
It's becoming more clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first. The thing I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing. I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order. My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461
