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Addendum to what I say at 5 mins 18 seconds: Tegmark's claim about the decoherence time has been disputed by Hameroff et al https://journals.aps.org/pre/a....bstract/10.1103/Phys

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In this video I talk about a few approaches to mathematically describe consciousness and their shortcomings. I also briefly talk about what such studies could one day be good for. You can watch the talks from the workshop that I mention (and many more!!) here:

https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCWgIDgfzRDp-PmQvM

#Science #Mathematics #Consciousness

0:00 Intro
0:48 Integrated Information Theory
4:02 The Penrose-Hameroff microtubules conjecture
5:19 Palmer's Quantum Creativity
6:26 Erra's Optimal Synchronization
7:23 Mason's Information Maximization
8:52 What is it good for?
9:39 Sponsor Message