From: J <[email protected]> To: Subject: Re: Neil and other things Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:37:38 +0000 i think you might define what is culture. it may be the fractal of consiocusness. . rules , operating. it doesn't exist in one place. . silly questions like is there culture if everyone is sleeping. ? the perception or mispercepetion of self - simply may be an evolutionary benefit . one more artificial human construct. . like the weather. . silly anthropomorphism's." it decided to rain. ." I think looking into reductionism is difficult i would as usual go the other way. . crowd behavior. as emotion.. culture as consiousness. think of crowd behavior. - looking at each indiv not useful. not sure it is computable. views? for your child s medical cost . are you covered. ? On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 2:48 AM Bach, Joscha wrote: Dear Jeffrey, I think you are right: Neil and me share a lot of interests. I am curious where that leads, and expect that we will talk again, especially about digital psychology. The meeting with Elizabeth Koch and her crowd was quite fascinating. Her taste in funding scientists is a bit less discerning than yours, but I enjoyed Anil Seth and Guilio Tononi. Tononi is an autonomous intellect masquerading as a decently successful neuroscientist. The core ideas of his Integrated Information Theory of consciousness have never actually been published, which means that his followers (including Christof Koch and Max Tegmark) don't follow a complete theory but his personality. Before I met him, I did not understand why IIT is a bit of a cult. He is sharp, with the demeanor of an austere Catholic priest, and has come up with a perspective on consciousness that is actually new and original, which means that it is almost certainly wrong, but I think that unlike the pleasant Stu Hameroff he really cares about getting things right. (In case you are interested in the topic, I include a paper that got accepted for the AAAI spring