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Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience

Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal


Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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180 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2022
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:50 Overview of insights and autobiography
00:07:28 How are mental representations achieved?
00:16:37 Living in a world of symbols
00:23:11 Indexical Relationships
00:26:49 The language problem
00:29:47 Molecular binding and Covariant Relationships
00:39:45 Structural Information and Recursion
00:44:26 1,2,3, Repeat, Chomsky and Universal Grammar
00:51:19 Chomsky's Universals and Turing Machines
01:02:15 Gödel and minimizing ambiguity
01:10:13 Establishing reference and meaning
01:14:59 Noise and signals
01:20:08 The Symbol Grounding Problem ("The Hard Problem of Meaning")
01:30:06 Where does value come from?
01:37:28 Life is a process far from equilibrium
02:14:46 Homeodynamics and Teleodynamics
02:17:02 Sentience vs. Consciousness
02:39:55 Epistemology is tied to Ontology
02:45:31 Universal Grammar (with a capital "U") goes all the way down to chemistry
02:51:48 Absence and "Nothingness" (our existence is based in "absence")
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Released:
Dec 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, free will, and God. If you'd like to support this podcast, then visit the Patreon (https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal). Thank you for your charitable and kind hearted support. My name is Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian filmmaker making a documentary on the above topics (as for what shape the final settled project will take, I'm unsure). During the exploratory phase, there will be a plethora of interviews / conversations with intellectuals placed on this channel -- approximately un-edited.