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It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing. I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order. My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461

Please have a research on GKI LEVEL on effects on reversing Atherosclerosis, CKD, Stroke, cancer blindness, foot ulcers etc

Ketosis seems to be Carcinoprotective.. (protects us from Cancer).

I was going to agree until you started blaming Marxists, haha, talk about dogmatism. Name the Marxist who came up with gender theory. You can't. You think Harvard, an elite old money establishment run by and for the rich is full of Marxists? You are a joke.

Nice thoughts about why higher level tasks shut down first.

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I see the cultural influence of Korea becoming more significant.

Looks like the link to Luma is nowhere to be found in the description

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Social scientists are masters at picking the methodology that will confirm their initial conclusion aboutthe world. Always ask yourself about a study: would it have been published if it would have served the opposite conclusion?

He needs to read Menicus Moldbug.

what is dmts purpose in the brain? I guess we wont find out from this guy. Volume!

ive been saying this forever. Hippies like to get mad because theyve been saying bs their whole life

There is NO origin of Life, NO aliens. Consciousness is pictured in Rainbow. Dont waste your time with ufos and aliens.

Thanks for the valuable interview. I really appreciate.

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Well, this is new information. I need more.

Lustig can't talk about seed oil because it will hurt his funding.

For years, I've been looking for more and better discussion about how diet, drugs, microbes, parasites, and environments influence the psyche and society. Part of the problem is that we take for granted our own social constructs and ideological realism. The changes we have made to the world around us has changed us (agriculture). Changes we don't control also affect us (parasite-stress theory, behavioral immune system). This is where we need to be careful. Most of the discussion of blank slate is rather clueless. It doesn't mean what most think it means. I'd read Daniel Everett's recent defense of the blank slate, "Dark Matter of the Mind." What quickly becomes obvious is how some critics turned the blank slate into a caricature and straw man. A point Everett makes is that even a blank slate has inherent qualities that limits what can be written on it and how. It simply can be written and rewritten on in various ways. This is where the genetic determinists are being disproven. The arguments they've used about inheritance are extremely weak. Heritability rates include not only genetics but also epigenetics and shared environment. Epigenetics is one of those game changers and paradigm revolutions. It simply blows apart the entire dualistic framing of nature vs nurture. Environmental factors can alter epigenetics, and it's epigenetics that determines the expression of genetics. About tribal people being peaceful or violent, that is another complex topic. There are two aspects of this. Until the late Bronze Age, there is no evidence of there ever having been large-scale war or slaughter of humans by other humans. That indicates some new kind of stressor had emerged in human civilization. That is the thing we see with tribal people. They tend to be peaceful when unstressed and violent when stressed. But that is precisely what has changed over the centuries and millennia, the increase of stressors. Even before the Bronze Age, the single greatest stressor that developed was agriculture. Infections increased, maldevelopment worsened, height lowered, and the skull / brain shrank. Modern Westerners have only recently reversed some of that loss, if we have yet to regain skull / brain size. As for rice areas being more collectivist, they are also higher in parasites. All populations with high parasite loads are collectivist (conservative, RWA, low 'openness', etc). As that demonstrates, we have to be careful about correlations. Causation could go many directions, and sometimes an apparent factor is just a proxy. That is where I'd be cautious about concluding meat-eating causes aggression. Herding needs large, open grasslands. Farmers makes herding difficult by dominating land and blocking pathways, as it makes the hunter-gatherer lifestyle also difficult. Since agriculture came later, it could be argued that it's agriculture that is causing the conflict and adding to stress. Between starving and fighting, maybe it's unsurprising that herders and hunter-gatherers will fight for survival. But on average, they haven't won those conflicts. Large-scale agricultural societies, as seen emerging in the late Bronze Age with it's mass violence, made possible standing armies and long distance warfare, along with a high-carb diet allowed precocious sexuality, early pregnancy, and larger populations. This put a lot of pressure on the non-agricultural people. There is another point. In this video, it was stated that no society exists without religion or art. Well, arguably, the Piraha lack both, as well as lacking linguistic recursion. They have no mythology, no afterlife theology, no rituals, no storytelling tradition, and no artistic practice. Their clothing and housing is simple and practical. Daniel Everett studied them, and his son Caleb Everett went on to become an expert in linguistic relativity. Linguistic relativity is further evidence for non-genetic influences, specifically that of culture. We can also hook the Piraha back into the other main issue. They are a peaceful and pacifist society, with a strong element of egalitarianism. They don't use corporal punishment, with a laissez-faire lifestyle. Rather than rules and authority figures, they have a tight-knit identity. To their mind, Piraha don't kill. And on the rare occasion, when someone kills another, then by definition they're not Piraha. Effectively, they experience social death and banish themselves from the tribe. Only one known recent incident like this occurred. Yet as perfect contrast, in a nearby region are the Yanomami. They are infamous for being one of the most violent of tribes, and seemingly authoritarian. Unusrprisingly, where the Piraha live in a peaceful area of low stress, the Yanomami live in a borderland between two countries that has long been an area of conflict. These two tribes live in the same ecosystems with similar diets. But possibly these other environmental factors are pushing them in opposite directions (kungic vs regal). To demonstrate this same kind of divergence, look at bonobos and chimpanzees. They are genetically close with only a river separating the two species and keeping them from interbreeding. The peaceful, egalitarian bonobos live in an area of low stress, conflict, and violence. But the violent, authoritarian chimpanzees live in an area of human encroachment, poaching, and civil war. Genetic determinists have used chimpanzees as proof of a dark view of human nature, but this evidence actually points to a different conclusion. There is another reason to compare these two comparisons. One could argue that the Piraha and Yanomami represent two different genetic populations. Some of the Piraha are related to no other known genetic or linguistic population. But the bonobos and chimpanzees are genetically close, particularly to each other but also to humans. Interestingly, humans have slightly closer genetics to bonobos, as I recall. It's not to say genetics doesn't play a role, as it certainly does. It's just obviously environmental factors are powerful in determining how genetics is expressed. An interesting twist is that the Piraha aren't a single population. It appears that other populations at some point assimilated into their culture. There is one Piraha tribe that has a more African appearance. But to get to the point of environmental influence, all of the different looking Piraha have the exact same body type. That indicates that diet, microbiome, parasitism, or something is likely determining physical development. There could even be an effect of sunlight being filtered by jungle rather than direct exposure. This is where you could look for evidence of your meat intake causes aggression, an old belief within Galenic humoralism as Christianized in the Middle Ages (i.e., red meat increases heat, raises the blood). The Piraha eat a mostly fish-based diet. This does seem to not lend itself to massive growth as seen with people eating lots of ruminant meat. But you could argue that fish is less likely to increse violence rates. It's an interesting hypothesis. Certainly, under Medieval food laws, that was why fish was eaten when abstaining from 'meat'. One suspects there is truth to this. The Medieval elites instituted food laws because they feared red meat got people's blood up, inciting unruliness and violence. Maybe there was some fear that the peasants, if they ate like the Mongols, might become as strong and irrepressible as the Mongols. But keep in mind the Mongols weren't only eating meat but also tons of dairy. They were getting massive nutrient-density. Maybe cutting out meat in the diet is often a proxy for malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies, which of course would lower energy, libido, and strength. Besides, to look at the other side of the equation, there are the fish-eating Polynesians who were a warrior people. They were eating fish, while not being deprived of nutrition. But that sometimes aggressive culture could've been caused by other factors: limited land availability, scarcity of resources, travelers and/or invaders from other islands, etc. Still, it is difficult to make conclusive generalizations when one can come up with endless exceptions from the records of history, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, etc. The additional problem, with such vast and diverse evidence to choose from, one can so easily cherrypick according to confirmation bias.

We decided that Fat was evil. Not sugar. The list goes on and on regarding things we got wrong.

I’m SDA. We get the plant based diet from the Bible. In the Old Testament, the book of Daniel. It’s called the Daniel diet. Also Genesis. But there are many SDA’s who are not vegan or vegetarian. Our focus is just to live as healthy as we can and to help others too, and treat our God-given bodies the as healthy as we can. Having said that, I am not saying being carnivore is not healthy. Just trying to answer the question more appropriately.

As much as I love animals, I just don't understand why a human body would be able to digest meat if it didn't mean to consume it. My problem lies in the way we are getting that meat... The horrible farms and so on... 😔

Incredibly informative, thank you.

I am very skeptical, I understand the mTOR is one of the leading culprits in aging, hence why rapamycin and caloric restriction work, so restricting BCAAs to lower mTOR activity makes sense, but also, these are all on SEDENTARY mice and people, I would love to see a study done on physically active people with resistance training and cardio. Also only 50% of the weight loss being fat sounds awful, when I go on a weight loss phase I tend to loose 95%+ fat. EDIT: This is super petty on my part, but he is kind of fat and out of shape, which makes me more suspicious, if he is so wise, why is he not lean and muscular?

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This whole business with receptors is too complex for SOTA science, let alone podcasts. Ultimately we may need AI and a language of 3-D geometry of molecule shapes and EM-waves to get closer to fine-grained manipulation, if not understanding. Also, is it just me or is it depressing (!) to reduce psychedelics to anti-depressants and anti-inflammatories? There are many classes of anti-depressants already available and literally hundreds of anti-inflammatories in the prescription drug category as well as supplements, vitamins and traditional medicine. Why resort to psychedelics for these purposes? Have we exited the era where the spiritual effects of these molecules mattered more than their (trumped-up) health benefits?

Why is this only 20 minutes/incomplete ? Do I miss something ? The same on Spotify ?

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Yes the world needs to know about this. Im doing ADF for the next 2 weeks

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I visited your TH-cam channel and your video quality is very good. If you give permission I would like to share some information with you.

As a multiple time TBI survivor, I can tell you it helps tremendously afterward too, and have had clear physical alleviation of palpable symptoms that support it.

bless up i found this to be an interesting watch.

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Good stuff

WTF is a "verite" experience?

Thanks

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14:22,..Unproven claim & a blanket statement. THC alone is NOT unliked by everyone. To Andrew’s credit, he should’ve cited the research to his claim. I will look into the neuropsychopharmacological & behavioral response(s) to pure THC in humans, see if there is any credible evidence supporting this blanket claim.

Typical Canadian research shill 😬

Loved this. Great content

Exceptionally valuable information - would love to hear many more hours of discussion on this subject matter.

Thank you very interesting discussion the doctor was very balanced giving some options for people who are struggling to accept a different diet