Wow. I expected food for thought, but not this much! Incredible (creative) work, and thank you, Josh, for sharing this with the world. The focus on the importance of sensory interplay was very informative and well put. I loved the little foray into agents at the end. For quite some time, I have been thinking consciousness has to be in part a result of our different sensory and computational processes running at different speeds, implying the need for a "space" where they all come together, or a "working memory". Consciousness (in itself a granular concept) the way we perceive it, cannot exist in a monolithical / single track mind as most traditional current AI approaches amount to. This podcast has added inputs to my own sensemaking of these ideas and, indeed, this world.
Thanks Josh! This series was a joy to listen to, and the understanding this episode in particular has given me of neural networks is unmatched - no other overview I've seen even comes close (although I guess they weren't as long). This last episode was quite information dense and I had to rewind a few times but apart from that the whole podcast was beautifully written. Well done.
Thank you Mr. Young. Ive learned so much from this podcast and the things you taught me will continue to impact my life for years to come. What an absolutely thought provoking program! Ill miss it dearly Thanks for creating this show. I look forward to whatever you decide to make in the future :)
Thank you very much for this brilliant, entertaining, and profound journey through complexity. You have a special talent for explaining complex concepts in a very entertaining and fun way. I hope you continue this dialogue to include more insights about complexity, a topic that needs more dissemination and discussion. Thanks again, I enjoyed every step of the journey.
Great video as always. Do you plan on uploading to Spotify as well? I typically download your videos to be able to listen to at the gym, but I rather my watch time support you at the minimum!
Thank you Josh, for sharing this profound scientific observations with patience and very relatable examples. ❤ It helps me in understanding and gaining different perspectives from philosophical and spiritual literatures I have been exploring.
really curious what ur future episodes will be delving into! this really reminds me of a lot i’ve garnered into my philosophy from david bohm, the brain behaving like a quantum computer, and overall looking at everything in terms of a system rather than a reducible separate entity. thanks for the series thus far:))
while i haven’t caught up with the series quite yet, im very curious which direction it will go philosophically. struggling to identify if you think there is an implicate order like bohms theory, whether you think this is panpsychism in a quantum universe with intentionality, or if you just are laying out the ground work for how misinformed a lot of science is. how we are simply taught at a young age that our genes make up our morphology and that’s that. regardless, im loving the series and will definitely refer some friends of mine to watch this for furthering our discussions!! bless you sir josh
quite crazy i’m finding this, i put in the research about 3 months ago of how much storage we would actually be starting off for our “blue print” if our mind was a mere digital computer - i would’ve thought it to come out but… 700-800mb? anyone who wants to argue we aren’t a quantum computer brain or have some non particle based aspect to our experience is being quite silly…
Hmm with a definition of complexity we can do things with it. Like increase or decrease it. For example computer programs are notoriously complex, nd it would be preferrable if that wouldn't be so, or at the very least, that complexity should be understndable. On the other side, cryptographic algorithms would benefit from complexity, as long as it's reversible?
Thank you Josh. I'm a computer engineering student in my final year. I majored in intelligent systems & VLSI design but the complexity shows up a lot. Your analogies seemlessly show complexity. Your getting to something, let's continue. I wish I could contribute 😅
@legoguy23451 yeah I enjoy this show, it became my way of knowing that today is Sunday, I sleep to it as my final thing I watch for the day, this being about information and complexity I wonder what happend at the beginning of existence
There is a video by the channel nanorooms that provides insights on how we might be able to analyze morphology of a grown organism from the genome of the seed. This would, partially and imperfectly, allow us to bypass computational irreducibility of genetics. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oO3H1ZYZCz4.html
First of all, I want to thank you for sending me this link. That is an excellent video and I have already subscribed to his channel. I agree with you that some of embryogenesis is generalizable, but understanding the rules and the processes does not always equate to reducibility. Remember, the rules to Conway's game of Life are very well known and very simple, but they still have to be stepped through one at a time. I can see your point that if the organism is closely related to one whose development is well characterized, shortcuts can be taken by means of mathematical modeling. However, these models are approximations and , although it may be possible to solve for the fact that the embryo will turn into a fly, as was the example in the video you recommended, it is still impossible to predict the particulars of the individual fly into which the embryo will turn. The idea of models approximating complex systems is going to be the theme of episode 11, which I am writing even as we speak! I want to thank you again for your insightful observation. I think the truth probably lies somewhere between us.
I just finished recording episode 10 which mentions both the Egyptian and Greek name of a pharaoh. I want you to know that I went to two sources to make sure that I got the pronunciation right! No guarantees though
There are different rules in place for the sand pile experiment, gravity, friction between sand grains, friction between sand grain and air molecules, 3D shape of the grains, all of these rules and building blocks, contribute to the big picture structure of an intention behind the experiment
Of course you are correct. I am not suggesting that the self-assembled shape is completely divorced from properties of the individual elements or the environment. In fact, it is dependent upon these. What I am saying, and I will emphasize this point in a later episode, is that the structure that emerges does so as the result of interaction between these elements and does not arise from a single element itself. It is, in essence, a physical manifestation of these interactions.
This got me thinking about making a neurl network with adaptive layer connection count based on lacking or having too much information in a neuron and it then requesting more connections or cutting down on them, to increase the computational efficiency of the over all learning process. Possibly going from O(N^2) to some logarithm or fraction of it
Thanks. I'm going to discuss neuroplasticity only briefly in episode 10. I'm going to start working on that script this week and I'll keep your advice in mind.
Can you do a video on the dmt experience, it s information after all, are you familiar with tryptophan hallucinations? I'm just curious, don t think much about it
That's a really interesting idea. My goals with this podcast are quite limited though. I want to discuss complexity theory and information flow, neurogenesis, and its implications for our understanding of the world. I anticipate fewer than 15 episodes in total.
@@JoshYoungMD I was wondering how many episodes we get, now I know.. great.. You can keep going honestly.. why limit yourself.. there is no reason to do so or is it?
