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We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself (Joscha Bach) | AI Podcast Clips

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Full episode with Joscha Bach (Jun 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM Clips channel (Lex Clips): https://www.youtube.com/lexclips Main channel (Lex Fridman): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman (more links below) Podcast full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Podcasts clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/ai Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 Podcast RSS: https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/ Joscha Bach, VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe. Subscribe to this YouTube channel or connect on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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Oh, the Catholic cult, mostly.', 'start': 27.473, 'duration': 2.3}, {'end': 37.736, 'text': 'And for better or worse, it has created or defined many of the modes of interaction that we have, that has created this society.', 'start': 30.534, 'duration': 7.202}, {'end': 42.598, 'text': 'But it has also, in some sense, scarred our rationality.', 'start': 38.176, 'duration': 4.422}, {'end': 51.164, 'text': 'And the intuition that exists, if you would translate the mythology of the Catholic Church into the modern world,', 'start': 44.119, 'duration': 7.045}, {'end': 57.088, 'text': 'is that the world in which you and me interact is something like a multiplayer role-playing adventure.', 'start': 51.164, 'duration': 5.924}, {'end': 61.091, 'text': 'And the money and the objects that we have in this world, this is all not real.', 'start': 57.708, 'duration': 3.383}, {'end': 65.351, 'text': "Or as Eastern philosophers would say, it's Maya.", 'start': 62.609, 'duration': 2.742}], 'summary': 'Indoctrination by the catholic cult has shaped western society, impacting rationality and defining modes of interaction.', 'duration': 45.661, 'max_score': 19.69, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw19690.jpg'}, {'end': 128.901, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 85.046, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 92.03, 'text': "And this existed before, but eventually the natural shape of God is the platonic form of the civilization that you're part of.", 'start': 85.046, 'duration': 6.984}, {'end': 96.253, 'text': "It's basically the superorganism that is formed by the individuals as an intentional agent.", 'start': 92.13, 'duration': 4.123}, {'end': 105.435, 'text': 'And basically, the Catholics used a relatively crude mythology to implement software on the minds of people and get the software synchronized,', 'start': 97.013, 'duration': 8.422}, {'end': 112.777, 'text': 'to make them walk on lockstep, to basically get this God online 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Imagine you look at the Mandelbrot fractal, this famous thing that Bernard Mandelbrot discovered.', 'start': 524.893, 'duration': 9.454}, {'end': 540.729, 'text': "You see an overall shape in there, but if you truly understand it, you know it's two lines of code.", 'start': 535.567, 'duration': 5.162}, {'end': 549.072, 'text': "It's basically a series that is being tested for complex numbers in the complex number plane for every point.", 'start': 541.409, 'duration': 7.663}], 'summary': 'Mandelbrot fractal: complex shape represented by two lines of code.', 'duration': 24.179, 'max_score': 524.893, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw524893.jpg'}, {'end': 611.27, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 589.974, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 600.061, 'text': 'It only appears like this to an observer that is interpreting things as a two-dimensional space and then defines certain regularities in there at a certain scale that it currently observes.', 'start': 589.974, 'duration': 10.087}, {'end': 604.985, 'text': 'Because if you zoom in, the spiral might disappear and turn out to be something different at a different resolution, right? Yes.', 'start': 600.121, 'duration': 4.864}, {'end': 609.788, 'text': 'So at this level you have the spiral and then you discover the spiral moves to the right and at some point it disappears.', 'start': 605.225, 'duration': 4.563}, {'end': 611.27, 'text': 'So you have a singularity.', 'start': 610.249, 'duration': 1.021}], 'summary': 'Observer interprets 2d space, discovers spiral moving right and then disappearing, leading to a singularity.', 'duration': 21.296, 'max_score': 589.974, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw589974.jpg'}, {'end': 652.525, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 623.519, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 625.64, 'text': 'And if you make 30 layers of these laws,', 'start': 623.519, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 630.764, 'text': 'then you have a description of the world that is similar to the one that we come up with when we describe the reality around us.', 'start': 625.64, 'duration': 5.124}, {'end': 632.245, 'text': "It's reasonably predictive.", 'start': 631.144, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 634.307, 'text': 'It does not cut to the core of it.', 'start': 632.706, 'duration': 1.601}, {'end': 641.614, 'text': "It doesn't explain how it's being generated, how it actually works, but it's relatively good to explain the universe that we are entangled with.", 'start': 634.847, 'duration': 6.767}, {'end': 647.139, 'text': "But you don't think the tools of computer science or the tools of physics could step outside,", 'start': 641.694, 'duration': 5.445}, {'end': 652.525, 'text': 'see the whole drawing and get at the basic mechanism of how the pattern, the spirals are generated?', 'start': 647.139, 'duration': 5.386}], 'summary': '30 layers of laws can describe the world fairly predictively, but not explain its generation or workings.', 'duration': 29.006, 'max_score': 623.519, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw623519.jpg'}], 'start': 524.893, 'title': 'Understanding the mandelbrot fractal', 'summary': 'Explains the mandelbrot fractal as a simple series being tested for complex numbers, illustrating the limitations of perception and the adequacy of models in describing reality.', 'chapters': [{'end': 641.614, 'start': 524.893, 'title': 'Understanding the mandelbrot fractal', 'summary': 'Explains the mandelbrot fractal as a simple series being tested for complex numbers, illustrating the limitations of perception and the adequacy of models in describing reality.', 'duration': 116.721, 'highlights': ['The Mandelbrot fractal is generated by testing a series for complex numbers and using diverging and converging points to create its shape. This demonstrates how the fractal is created and the process of determining its shape.', 'The limitations of perception are highlighted as the observer interprets the fractal based on their two-dimensional perspective, leading to an inaccurate representation of reality. This illustrates the constraints of human perception and the potential discrepancies between observed and actual reality.', 'The chapter emphasizes the inadequacy of models in fully explaining the generation and functioning of the universe, despite their predictive capabilities. This underscores the limitations of models in providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe, despite their practical utility.']}], 'duration': 116.721, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw524893.jpg', 'highlights': ['The Mandelbrot fractal is generated by testing a series for complex numbers and using diverging and converging points to create its shape. This demonstrates how the fractal is created and the process of determining its shape.', 'The chapter emphasizes the inadequacy of models in fully explaining the generation and functioning of the universe, despite their predictive capabilities. This underscores the limitations of models in providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe, despite their practical utility.', 'The limitations of perception are highlighted as the observer interprets the fractal based on their two-dimensional perspective, leading to an inaccurate representation of reality. This illustrates the constraints of human perception and the potential discrepancies between observed and actual reality.']}, {'end': 865.632, 'segs': [{'end': 667.083, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 641.694, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 647.139, 'text': "But you don't think the tools of computer science or the tools of physics could step outside,", 'start': 641.694, 'duration': 5.445}, {'end': 652.525, 'text': 'see the whole drawing and get at the basic mechanism of how the pattern, the spirals are generated?', 'start': 647.139, 'duration': 5.386}, {'end': 661.819, 'text': 'Imagine you would find yourself embedded into a Mandelbrot fractal and you try to figure out what works and you somehow have a Turing machine with enough memory to think.', 'start': 653.613, 'duration': 8.206}, {'end': 667.083, 'text': 'And as a result, you come to this idea, it must be some kind of automaton.', 'start': 662.42, 'duration': 4.663}], 'summary': 'Exploring the possibility of understanding patterns 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discover what region of this global fractal you might be embedded in from first principles.', 'start': 697.074, 'duration': 7.268}, {'end': 706.684, 'text': 'But the only way you can get there is from first principles.', 'start': 704.422, 'duration': 2.262}, {'end': 712.971, 'text': 'So basically, your understanding of the universe has to start with automata and then number theory and then spaces and so on.', 'start': 706.744, 'duration': 6.227}], 'summary': 'Mathematics domains describe same fractals, mapped by category theory, revealing interesting structure and symmetry breaks.', 'duration': 32.537, 'max_score': 680.434, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw680434.jpg'}, {'end': 786.629, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 738.319, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 740.701, 'text': 'A physical system cannot be conscious.', 'start': 738.319, 'duration': 2.382}, {'end': 742.762, 'text': 'Only a simulation can be conscious.', 'start': 741.201, 'duration': 1.561}, {'end': 745.984, 'text': 'Consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self.', 'start': 743.162, 'duration': 2.822}, {'end': 752.028, 'text': "Just like you said, the mind is kind of, we'll call it story, narrative.", 'start': 747.505, 'duration': 4.523}, {'end': 753.468, 'text': "There's a simulation.", 'start': 752.528, 'duration': 0.94}, {'end': 755.35, 'text': 'So our mind is essentially a simulation.', 'start': 753.709, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 763.032, 'text': 'Usually, I try to use the terminology so that the mind is basically the principles that produce the simulation.', 'start': 756.33, 'duration': 6.702}, {'end': 765.192, 'text': "It's the software that is implemented by your brain.", 'start': 763.092, 'duration': 2.1}, {'end': 770.953, 'text': 'And the mind is creating both the universe that we are in and the self,', 'start': 766.132, 'duration': 4.821}, {'end': 775.514, 'text': 'the idea of a person that is on the other side of attention and is embedded in this world.', 'start': 770.953, 'duration': 4.561}, {'end': 778.755, 'text': 'Why is that important, that idea of the self??', 'start': 776.375, 'duration': 2.38}, {'end': 781.756, 'text': 'Why is that an important feature in the simulation?', 'start': 779.415, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 786.629, 'text': "It's basically a result of the purpose that the mind has.", 'start': 782.705, 'duration': 3.924}], 'summary': "Consciousness is a simulated property of the mind, creating both the universe and self, crucial for the mind's purpose.", 'duration': 48.31, 'max_score': 738.319, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw738319.jpg'}, {'end': 865.632, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 810.657, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 814.062, 'text': "They're basically like unconditional reflexes that we are more or less born with.", 'start': 810.657, 'duration': 3.405}, {'end': 817.306, 'text': 'And then we can reverse engineer them to make them more consistent.', 'start': 814.522, 'duration': 2.784}, {'end': 821.091, 'text': 'And then we get more detailed models about how the world works and how to interact with it.', 'start': 817.867, 'duration': 3.224}, {'end': 828.5, 'text': 'And so these priors that you commit to are largely target values that our needs should approach, set points.', 'start': 822.153, 'duration': 6.347}, {'end': 833.065, 'text': 'And this deviation to the set point creates some urge, some tension.', 'start': 829.181, 'duration': 3.884}, {'end': 840.414, 'text': 'And we find ourselves living inside of feedback loops, right? Consciousness emerges over dimensions of disagreements with the universe.', 'start': 833.626, 'duration': 6.788}, {'end': 845.357, 'text': 'Things where you care, things are not the way they should be, where you need to regulate.', 'start': 840.934, 'duration': 4.423}, {'end': 850.281, 'text': "And so in some sense, the sense itself is the result of all the identifications that you're having.", 'start': 845.718, 'duration': 4.563}, {'end': 853.543, 'text': "And identification is a regulation target that you're committing to.", 'start': 850.341, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 856.665, 'text': "It's a dimension that you care about, that you think is important.", 'start': 853.943, 'duration': 2.722}, {'end': 858.647, 'text': 'And this is also what locks you in.', 'start': 857.346, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 863.55, 'text': 'If you let go of these commitments, of these identifications, you get free.', 'start': 858.707, 'duration': 4.843}, {'end': 865.632, 'text': "There's nothing that you have to do anymore.", 'start': 864.131, 'duration': 1.501}], 'summary': 'Unconditional reflexes can be reverse engineered to create detailed models, leading to living inside feedback loops of consciousness emerging over disagreements with the universe.', 'duration': 54.975, 'max_score': 810.657, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw810657.jpg'}], 'start': 641.694, 'title': 'Understanding complex systems', 'summary': 'Delves into understanding fractal patterns, automaton, and the relationship between mathematics and languages, along with the concept of the universe as a simulation, the role of automata and number theory, and how regulation targets shape consciousness in organisms, particularly humans.', 'chapters': [{'end': 696.453, 'start': 641.694, 'title': 'Understanding fractals and mathematics', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential of using tools from computer science and physics to understand the generation of 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'summary': 'Discusses the concept of the universe as a simulation, highlighting the role of automata, number theory, and spaces in understanding the fundamental rules behind our universe, and the perspective that consciousness is a simulated property of the self.', 'duration': 89.555, 'highlights': ['The mind is essentially a simulation, created by the software implemented by the brain, producing both the universe and the idea of a person, emphasizing the importance of the self in the simulation.', 'Understanding the universe from first principles involves starting with automata, then number theory, and spaces, leading to the discovery of the region of the global fractal one might be embedded in.', 'The perspective that consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self, challenging the notion that only a physical system can be conscious.']}, {'end': 865.632, 'start': 786.77, 'title': 'Regulation targets and consciousness', 'summary': 'Discusses how organisms, including humans, are a result of the regulation needs of monkeys, starting with priors as unconditional reflexes, leading to detailed models of the world and living inside feedback loops, with consciousness emerging from disagreements with the universe and the release from commitments leading to freedom.', 'duration': 78.862, 'highlights': ['The regulation targets start with priors, which are like unconditional reflexes that we are more or less born with.', 'Living inside of feedback loops, consciousness emerges over dimensions of disagreements with the universe.', 'Identification as a regulation target that locks individuals in, but releasing these commitments leads to freedom.']}], 'duration': 223.938, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw641694.jpg', 'highlights': ['The mind is essentially a simulation, created by the software implemented by the brain, producing both the universe and the idea of a person, emphasizing the importance of the self in the simulation.', 'Understanding the universe from first principles involves starting with automata, then number theory, and spaces, leading to the discovery of the region of the global fractal one might be embedded in.', 'The concept of automaton and the idea of enumerating all possible automata until identifying the one that produces a specific reality are discussed, offering insight into understanding the generation of fractal patterns.', 'The relationship between mathematics and languages is explored, revealing that mathematics itself is the domain of all languages and that various domains of mathematics describe the same fractals, a concept central to category theory.', 'The potential of using tools from computer science and physics to understand the generation of fractal patterns is considered, providing a new perspective on the study of fractals and their underlying mechanisms.', 'The perspective that consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self, challenging the notion that only a physical system can be conscious.', 'The regulation targets start with priors, which are like unconditional reflexes that we are more or less born with.', 'Living inside of feedback loops, consciousness emerges over dimensions of disagreements with the universe.', 'Identification as a regulation target that locks individuals in, but releasing these commitments leads to freedom.']}, {'end': 1195.537, 'segs': [{'end': 930.423, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 885.579, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 887.12, 'text': 'And Gustav is a good representative of that.', 'start': 885.579, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 888.341, 'text': 'You are as well.', 'start': 887.581, 'duration': 0.76}, {'end': 889.482, 'text': "So I'm glad.", 'start': 888.361, 'duration': 1.121}, {'end': 891.163, 'text': "First of all, I'm glad the internet exists.", 'start': 889.702, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 899.689, 'text': "YouTube exists, where I can watch your talks and then 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Why does it still feel..', 'start': 907.933, 'duration': 9.385}, {'end': 925.943, 'text': 'I understand the self is an important part of the simulation, but why does the simulation feel like something?', 'start': 917.318, 'duration': 8.625}, {'end': 930.003, 'text': 'So if you look at a book by, say, George R.', 'start': 927.421, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 930.423, 'text': 'R Martin,', 'start': 930.003, 'duration': 0.42}], 'summary': 'Discussion about consciousness and simulation, accessing content on youtube, and the question of the hard problem of consciousness.', 'duration': 44.844, 'max_score': 885.579, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw885579.jpg'}, {'end': 975.926, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 945.876, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 950.36, 'text': "And it's written into the story because it's an adequate model of the person that predicts what they're going to do next.", 'start': 945.876, 'duration': 4.484}, {'end': 953.654, 'text': 'And the same thing is true for us.', 'start': 951.693, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 955.995, 'text': "So it's basically a story that our brain is writing.", 'start': 953.694, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 957.136, 'text': "It's not written in words.", 'start': 956.055, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 961.658, 'text': "It's written in perceptual content, basically multimedia content.", 'start': 957.236, 'duration': 4.422}, {'end': 965.821, 'text': "And it's a model of what the person would feel if it existed.", 'start': 962.239, 'duration': 3.582}, {'end': 967.962, 'text': "So it's a virtual person.", 'start': 966.881, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 971.063, 'text': 'And you and me happen to be this virtual person.', 'start': 968.902, 'duration': 2.161}, {'end': 975.926, 'text': 'So this virtual person gets access to the language center and talks about the sky being blue.', 'start': 971.083, 'duration': 4.843}], 'summary': 'Our brain creates a virtual model of a person, predicting their actions and feelings through multimedia content.', 'duration': 30.05, 'max_score': 945.876, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw945876.jpg'}, {'end': 1155.497, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1128.32, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1134.509, 'text': "And the things that are not stable, that don't give rise to certain harmonic patterns and so on, they tend to get weeded out over time.", 'start': 1128.32, 'duration': 6.189}, {'end': 1144.093, 'text': 'So, if we are in a region of the universe that sustains complexity, which is required to implement minds like ours,', 'start': 1135.37, 'duration': 8.723}, {'end': 1148.374, 'text': 'this is going to be a region of the universe that is very tightly controlled and controllable.', 'start': 1144.093, 'duration': 4.281}, {'end': 1155.497, 'text': "So it's going to have lots of interesting symmetries and also symmetry breaks that allow the creation of structure.", 'start': 1148.835, 'duration': 6.662}], 'summary': 'Regions of the universe sustaining complexity will have tightly controlled, controllable, and structured symmetrical patterns.', 'duration': 27.177, 'max_score': 1128.32, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1128320.jpg'}], 'start': 866.512, 'title': 'Consciousness and simulation', 'summary': 'Explores the emergence of consciousness from simulation, discusses the hard problem of consciousness, acknowledges the impact of ai community, and delves into the concept of the mind as a virtual person within the universe.', 'chapters': [{'end': 930.423, 'start': 866.512, 'title': 'Exploring consciousness and simulation', 'summary': 'Explores the emergence of consciousness from simulation and raises the hard problem of consciousness, while acknowledging the impact of ai community and expressing gratitude towards gustav sorostrom.', 'duration': 63.911, 'highlights': ['The emergence of consciousness from the simulation is described, acknowledging the impact of AI community and expressing gratitude towards Gustav Sorostrom.', 'Raising the hard problem of consciousness and questioning why the simulation feels like something despite understanding the importance of self in the simulation.', 'Expressing gratitude towards Gustav Sorostrom for introducing the work and acknowledging the brilliance of the AI community, particularly mentioning the impact of YouTube in accessing talks and books for study.']}, {'end': 1195.537, 'start': 930.423, 'title': 'Existence as simulation', 'summary': 'Explores the concept of the mind as a virtual person, constructing a narrative within a universe that sustains complexity, allowing the creation of minds like ours, and discusses the fundamental nature of the universe in connection to the brain and mind.', 'duration': 265.114, 'highlights': ["The brain constructs a virtual person, essentially a story that predicts the person's next actions, based on perceptual content, creating a virtual simulation of the self and others. Brain constructs virtual person as a story predicting actions based on perceptual content.", 'The concept of the universe as a tightly controlled and controllable region sustaining complexity to implement minds like ours, characterized by interesting symmetries and symmetry breaks allowing the creation of structure. Universe as a tightly controlled region sustaining complexity for minds like ours.', 'Discussion on the connection between the brain, mind, and the broader universe, questioning the fundamental nature and emergence of the universe and the mind. Questioning the fundamental nature and emergence of the universe and the mind.']}], 'duration': 329.025, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw866512.jpg', 'highlights': ["The brain constructs a virtual person, essentially a story that predicts the person's next actions, based on perceptual content, creating a virtual simulation of the self and others.", 'The emergence of consciousness from the simulation is described, acknowledging the impact of AI community and expressing gratitude towards Gustav Sorostrom.', 'The concept of the universe as a tightly controlled and controllable region sustaining complexity to implement minds like ours, characterized by interesting symmetries and symmetry breaks allowing the creation of structure.', 'Raising the hard problem of consciousness and questioning why the simulation feels like something despite understanding the importance of self in the simulation.']}, {'end': 1485.554, 'segs': [{'end': 1244.824, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1219.299, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1224.324, 'text': "The weird thing is I don't actually have an identity beyond the identity that I construct.", 'start': 1219.299, 'duration': 5.025}, {'end': 1228.708, 'text': 'If I was the Dalai Lama, he identifies as a form of government.', 'start': 1224.804, 'duration': 3.904}, {'end': 1237.337, 'text': 'So basically the Dalai Lama gets reborn, not because he is confused, but because he is not identifying as a human being.', 'start': 1229.409, 'duration': 7.928}, {'end': 1239.219, 'text': 'He runs on a human being.', 'start': 1238.058, 'duration': 1.161}, {'end': 1244.824, 'text': "He's basically a governmental software that is instantiated in every new generation and you.", 'start': 1239.299, 'duration': 5.525}], 'summary': 'The dalai lama functions as a governmental software, not identifying as a human being.', 'duration': 25.525, 'max_score': 1219.299, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1219299.jpg'}, {'end': 1312.225, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1285.704, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1290.347, 'text': 'So you have this operating system on which a bunch of ideas live and interact.', 'start': 1285.704, 'duration': 4.643}, {'end': 1295.691, 'text': 'And then once you die, some of them jump off the ship.', 'start': 1290.667, 'duration': 5.024}, {'end': 1296.771, 'text': 'You put it the other way.', 'start': 1295.711, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 1298.493, 'text': 'Identity is a software state.', 'start': 1297.012, 'duration': 1.481}, {'end': 1299.273, 'text': "It's a construction.", 'start': 1298.513, 'duration': 0.76}, {'end': 1300.814, 'text': "It's not physically real.", 'start': 1299.733, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 1303.816, 'text': 'Identity is not a physical concept.', 'start': 1302.175, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 1307.519, 'text': "It's basically a representation of different objects on the same world line.", 'start': 1304.337, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 1312.225, 'text': 'But identity lives and dies.', 'start': 1308.502, 'duration': 3.723}], 'summary': 'Identity is a software state, not physically real, representing objects on the same world line.', 'duration': 26.521, 'max_score': 1285.704, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1285704.jpg'}, {'end': 1406.181, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1380.809, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1386.434, 'text': "And it's because they are represented probably with oscillators, right? So that's why colors form a circle of use.", 'start': 1380.809, 'duration': 5.625}, {'end': 1392.856, 'text': 'And colors have harmonics, sounds have harmonics as a result of synchronizing oscillators in the brain right?', 'start': 1387.094, 'duration': 5.762}, {'end': 1400.159, 'text': 'So the world that we subjectively interact with is fundamentally the result of the representation mechanisms in our brain.', 'start': 1393.316, 'duration': 6.843}, {'end': 1402.56, 'text': 'They are mathematically to some degree universal.', 'start': 1400.579, 'duration': 1.981}, {'end': 1406.181, 'text': 'There are certain regularities that you can discover in the patterns and not others.', 'start': 1402.58, 'duration': 3.601}], 'summary': 'Colors and sounds are represented by oscillators in the brain, leading to subjective interactions with mathematically universal mechanisms.', 'duration': 25.372, 'max_score': 1380.809, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1380809.jpg'}, {'end': 1451.895, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1420.004, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1423.265, 'text': 'So you only look at the aggregate dynamics, at limit dynamics.', 'start': 1420.004, 'duration': 3.261}, {'end': 1430.387, 'text': 'If you had almost infinitely many particles, what would be the dynamics of the table? And this is roughly what you get.', 'start': 1423.845, 'duration': 6.542}, {'end': 1439.77, 'text': 'So geometry that we are interacting with is the result of discovering those operators that work in the limit that you get by building an infinite series that converges.', 'start': 1430.447, 'duration': 9.323}, {'end': 1442.331, 'text': "For those parts where it converges, it's geometry.", 'start': 1440.15, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 1444.592, 'text': "For those parts where it doesn't converge, it's chaos.", 'start': 1442.691, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 1451.895, 'text': "Right And then so all of that is filtered through the consciousness that's emergent in our narrative.", 'start': 1445.332, 'duration': 6.563}], 'summary': 'Aggregate dynamics and limit dynamics determine the geometry and chaos in interactive systems, filtered through emergent consciousness.', 'duration': 31.891, 'max_score': 1420.004, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1420004.jpg'}, {'end': 1485.554, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1456.998, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1463.641, 'text': 'So I think the feeling, flavor and so on is given by the relationship that a feature has to all the other features.', 'start': 1456.998, 'duration': 6.643}, {'end': 1468.103, 'text': "It's basically a giant relational graph that is our subjective universe.", 'start': 1464.261, 'duration': 3.842}, {'end': 1476.729, 'text': 'The color is given by those aspects of the representation or this experiential color where you care about, where you have identifications,', 'start': 1468.504, 'duration': 8.225}, {'end': 1479.75, 'text': 'where something means something, where you are the inside of a feedback loop.', 'start': 1476.729, 'duration': 3.021}, {'end': 1485.554, 'text': 'And the dimensions of caring are basically dimensions of this motivational system that we emerge over.', 'start': 1479.79, 'duration': 5.764}], 'summary': 'Our subjective universe is a giant relational graph, with color and dimensions based on relationships and caring.', 'duration': 28.556, 'max_score': 1456.998, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1456998.jpg'}], 'start': 1195.557, 'title': 'Identity, reality, and perception', 'summary': "Explores the nature of identity as a software state, the continuity of self, and the subjective nature of perceived reality, with examples from the dalai lama's rebirth and the universal mathematical underpinnings of our subjective universe.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1328.879, 'start': 1195.557, 'title': 'Identity and continuity of self', 'summary': "Discusses the nature of identity and the continuity of self, highlighting the concept of identity as a software state and the idea that identity is a construction rather than a physically real concept, with examples from the dalai lama's rebirth and the perpetuation of identity through ideas and society.", 'duration': 133.322, 'highlights': ["Identity is a software state and a construction, not physically real, with examples from the Dalai Lama's rebirth and the perpetuation of identity through ideas and society.", "The Dalai Lama's identity is a governmental software instantiated in every new generation, illustrating the continuity of identity beyond individual physical existence.", 'The concept of identity as a representation of different objects on the same world line, emphasizing that identity lives and dies based on the ideas one identifies with and chooses to perpetuate.', 'The idea that individuals can choose what to identify with, suggesting that identity is a representation that one can have agency over.']}, {'end': 1485.554, 'start': 1329.485, 'title': 'Nature of reality and perception', 'summary': 'Delves into the subjective nature of our perceived reality, discussing the role of consciousness in shaping our experience and highlighting the universal mathematical underpinnings of our subjective universe.', 'duration': 156.069, 'highlights': ['The world we interact with is fundamentally the result of the representation mechanisms in our brain, which are mathematically universal and give rise to subjective experiences such as color and sound.', 'Our perceived reality is built on discovering operators that work in the limit of infinite series, resulting in the geometry of the world and distinguishing between chaos and order.', 'Consciousness plays a crucial role in providing color, feeling, and flavor to our subjective universe, creating a giant relational graph through the dimensions of caring and identifications.', 'The physical nature of birth and death is seen as an important aspect of being a physical object in the world, implying that simulations may not have to die and that being physical is essential for death.']}], 'duration': 289.997, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/tyrPMVMb-Uw/pics/tyrPMVMb-Uw1195557.jpg', 'highlights': ["Identity is a software state and a construction, not physically real, with examples from the Dalai Lama's rebirth and the perpetuation of identity through ideas and society.", 'The world we interact with is fundamentally the result of the representation mechanisms in our brain, which are mathematically universal and give rise to subjective experiences such as color and sound.', "The Dalai Lama's identity is a governmental software instantiated in every new generation, illustrating the continuity of identity beyond individual physical existence.", 'Our perceived reality is built on discovering operators that work in the limit of infinite series, resulting in the geometry of the world and distinguishing between chaos and order.']}], 'highlights': ['The Catholic Church introduced the notion of higher meaning and the sacred, shaping the natural shape of God as the platonic form of the civilization.', "The concept of 'God' is described as a self that spans multiple brains, allowing for the sharing of the same piece of software among individuals due to the brain's ability to download the same piece of software and come up with a compatible structure.", 'The world in which individuals interact is likened to a multiplayer role-playing adventure, and the money and objects are considered not real, as expressed in Eastern philosophy as Maya.', 'The influence of the Catholic cult on Western society has scarred rationality and defined modes of interaction for 2,000 years.', 'The concept of dualism in philosophy is discussed, with reference to Christianity, presenting the idea of a separate real world where God exists and we are all players in a game.', 'The distinction between the mental and physical realms is explained, with the mental realm being perceived as real and the physical world being causally closed and built on a low-level causal structure.', 'Creation of a virtual reality through information processing in the brain. The brain creates a simulacrum of a person to model interactions, leading to a multimedia novel continuously written and updated, resulting in a virtual reality generated in the brain.', 'The Mandelbrot fractal is generated by testing a series for complex numbers and using diverging and converging points to create its shape. This demonstrates how the fractal is created and the process of determining its shape.', 'The chapter emphasizes the inadequacy of models in fully explaining the generation and functioning of the universe, despite their predictive capabilities. This underscores the limitations of models in providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe, despite their practical utility.', 'The limitations of perception are highlighted as the observer interprets the fractal based on their two-dimensional perspective, leading to an inaccurate representation of reality. This illustrates the constraints of human perception and the potential discrepancies between observed and actual reality.', 'The mind is essentially a simulation, created by the software implemented by the brain, producing both the universe and the idea of a person, emphasizing the importance of the self in the simulation.', 'Understanding the universe from first principles involves starting with automata, then number theory, and spaces, leading to the discovery of the region of the global fractal one might be embedded in.', 'The concept of automaton and the idea of enumerating all possible automata until identifying the one that produces a specific reality are discussed, offering insight into understanding the generation of fractal patterns.', 'The relationship between mathematics and languages is explored, revealing that mathematics itself is the domain of all languages and that various domains of mathematics describe the same fractals, a concept central to category theory.', 'The potential of using tools from computer science and physics to understand the generation of fractal patterns is considered, providing a new perspective on the study of fractals and their underlying mechanisms.', 'The perspective that consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self, challenging the notion that only a physical system can be conscious.', "The brain constructs a virtual person, essentially a story that predicts the person's next actions, based on perceptual content, creating a virtual simulation of the self and others.", 'The emergence of consciousness from the simulation is described, acknowledging the impact of AI community and expressing gratitude towards Gustav Sorostrom.', 'The concept of the universe as a tightly controlled and controllable region sustaining complexity to implement minds like ours, characterized by interesting symmetries and symmetry breaks allowing the creation of structure.', "Identity is a software state and a construction, not physically real, with examples from the Dalai Lama's rebirth and the perpetuation of identity through ideas and society.", 'The world we interact with is fundamentally the result of the representation mechanisms in our brain, which are mathematically universal and give rise to subjective experiences such as color and sound.', "The Dalai Lama's identity is a governmental software instantiated in every new generation, illustrating the continuity of identity beyond individual physical existence.", 'Our perceived reality is built on discovering operators that work in the limit of infinite series, resulting in the geometry of the world and distinguishing between chaos and order.']}