FOUNDATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES
(Added another video)
A couple of years ago I started producing a series of videos from the basic nervous system through to consciousness. I’d forgotten to publish this one on spaces and places (our sixth sense), and I’ve also recorded the Hippocampal region (where we create episodes and auto-associations, and predictions – where the magic happens).
I’m not thrilled with the recording quality because I was in ‘constrained’ circumstances taking care of an elderly parent and recording in an auditorium. That said, I’ve written most of the content for everything through the circuits of the brain and yes, the experience of qualia and consciousness.
My intention was to demystify (end the philosophical sophistry and pseudoscience) and explain with relative clarity how simple the brain, mind, and consciousness really is, despite its massive parallelism. And it really is quite simple. If it wasn’t, then flip-book animations wouldn’t work. 😉
These videos were the original first course of the Foundations (The Work). But we found we needed to start with a much simpler starting place. So we switched to the discussion of how to present the content, and eventually (almost two years ago) decided to use the first principles, despite my original desire to start with the brain, the logic, then grammars, then the first principles (scientific laws).
There are content creators today who are doing similar work even if less coherent in explaining the functions of the brain as an ‘operating system we experience’.
But this will get the point across for those who are interested.
I will most likely have to re-record the whole series at some point and have someone increase the production quality – when I have the time, which I rarely have.
For now we are working on the first book and the constitution. From there we will have the foundations to work on the rest of the books and the lessons. for them. But again, we are effectively trying to produce a four year program in multiple disciplines with a tiny team and it’s not easy. Ask anyone who has produced college courseware for stem.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-06-20 00:29:01 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1670951856032366597
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