Frontiers | The role of prediction in social neuroscience | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Frontiers | The role of prediction in social neuroscience | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: "These accounts of the mirror neuron system highlight the potential role of predictive mechanisms, particularly simulation, and inference with the predictive coding, and associative learning accounts, in social interaction. Consequently, these accounts could legitimately be extended to highlight the role of prediction, simulation and inference in other non-motor social cognitions associated with mirror neuron activity. Inference-based accounts of the mirror neuron system could potentially apply to some examples of work in social neuroscience showing that mirror neuron activity has been implicated in the distinction between self and other (Sinigaglia and Rizzolatti, 2011), mentalizing (De Lange et al., 2008; Centelles et al., 2011) and simulation of emotions (Bastiaansen et al., 2009). Even though the mirror neuron hypothesis provides a very appealing explanation for the processing of others' actions, there are other theories also related to predictive mechanisms that propose integrative frameworks for sensorimotor control and social interaction."

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The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel - Steve Paulson - The Atlantic

The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel - Steve Paulson - The Atlantic: "Koch: What I'm serious about is that the Internet, in principle, could have conscious states. Now, do these conscious states express happiness? Do they express pain? Pleasure? Anger? Red? Blue? That really depends on the exact kind of relationship between the transistors, the nodes, the computers. It's more difficult to ascertain what exactly it feels. But there's no question that in principle it could feel something.

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Christof Koch: Consciousness Is Everywhere

Christof Koch: Consciousness Is Everywhere: "No matter what the NCC will prove to be, a skeptic can always ask why does this particular NCC give rise to a conscious experience but not another one? The cause and effect between neuronal activity in the brain and conscious thought can seem as magical as rubbing a brass lamp and having a genie emerge. It is here that the ideas of Giulio Tononi, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, prove crucial. He advocates for a sophisticated theory that links information to consciousness. His integrated information theory introduces a precise measure capturing the extent of consciousness called Φ (phi). Expressed in bits, phi quantifies the extent to which any system of interacting parts is both differentiated and integrated when that system enters a particular state. Any one conscious experience is both highly differentiated from any other one but also unitary, holistic. The larger the phi, the richer the conscious experience of that system. Furthermore, the theory assigns any state of any network of causally interacting parts (these neurons are firing, those are quiet) to a shape in a high-dimensional space."

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Christof Koch: Consciousness Is Everywhere

Christof Koch: Consciousness Is Everywhere: "The belief in human exceptionalism, so strongly rooted in the Judeo-Christian view of the world, flies in the face of all evidence for the structural and behavioral continuity between animals and people"

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Octopuses Gain Consciousness (According to Scientists’ Declaration) | Octopus Chronicles, Scientific American Blog Network

Octopuses Gain Consciousness (According to Scientists’ Declaration) | Octopus Chronicles, Scientific American Blog Network: "Elephants cooperate to solve problems. Chimpanzees teach youngsters to make tools. Even octopuses seem to be able to plan. So should we humans really be surprised that “consciousness” probably does not only exist in us?

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Cybernetics and Design � .:: Peta Konsep Anak Bangsa ::.

Cybernetics and Design � .:: Peta Konsep Anak Bangsa ::.: of just about any other word you can think of in order to generically connote “futuristic” or “computer-enabled” or “electronic”. Actually, cybernetics is, quite generally, the study of “observed and observing systems”, or the study and theory of any system that uses feedback and correction in order to pursue specific goals.

Cybernetics and Design � .:: Peta Konsep Anak Bangsa ::.

Cybernetics and Design � .:: Peta Konsep Anak Bangsa ::.: of just about any other word you can think of in order to generically connote “futuristic” or “computer-enabled” or “electronic”. Actually, cybernetics is, quite generally, the study of “observed and observing systems”, or the study and theory of any system that uses feedback and correction in order to pursue specific goals.