{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64b67f06cabfcd001157fca8/68d533346a283f70b76dbbc2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Mark Solms","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64b67f06cabfcd001157fca8/1758802517209-3f4832d9-a5c7-4c2a-ad89-5639122e9400.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Another mind-blowing conversation, this time with Mark Solms, the neuropsychoanalist from the University of Cape Town, about his feeling-based theory of consciousness, how competing homeostatic needs lead to prioritization of responding to feelings, expressing these needs internally. At about the one hour mark, we go beyond and discuss how feelings can be understood as messages between hierarchical levels of conscious nested organisms.</p><p><br></p><p>Mark's book: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Spring-Journey-Source-Consciousness/dp/0393542017</p><p>A nine-episode conversation about the book: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxiNrgE29RIKY3hzQQlFZzkH85xsB4Vr</p><p><br></p><p>Related episodes:</p><p>Kevin Mitchell: https://youtu.be/nqxq-BiCr-M</p><p>Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/0nMXYdayQIU</p><p>Embodied AI: https://youtu.be/JZ8GTucClpM</p><p>Alexander Ororbia: https://youtu.be/N83vBfz7_BI</p><p>Yogi Jaeger: https://youtu.be/5UJ4y2L2qpk</p><p>Baudouin Saintyves: https://youtu.be/NmvzEpz9R84</p><p>Laura Desiree Di Paolo: https://youtu.be/9txUwVtAOBk</p><p>Anna Riedl: https://youtu.be/w2ZiSWZNQsg</p><p>Anna Ciaunica: https://youtu.be/x1QHwhlCn-8</p><p>Giuseppe Paolo: https://youtu.be/R7tEd65e2i8</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>00:00:00 Intro</p><p>00:04:35 Feeling-based consciousness. Anatomy: brain-stem vs cortical models.</p><p>00:20:43 The free energy principle and active inference. Do membranes exist? </p><p>00:41:00 The mechanisms of consciousness and the role of feeling. Prioritization of needs, voluntary actions, choice. Categorically different needs lead to qualia.</p><p>01:00:19 Hierarchical levels of nested organisms and feelings as messages.</p><p>01:27:46 Engineering consciousness. Is autopoiesis necessary?</p><p><br></p><p>I, scientist blog: https://balazskegl.substack.com</p><p>Twitter: https://twitter.com/balazskegl</p><p>Artwork: DALL-E</p><p>Music: Bea Palya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDp3qcFZdU1yoWIRpMSaZw</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Balazs Kegl"}