Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring Part 3 of 9: The Cortical Fallacy

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In The Hidden Spring, our guest Mark Solms does not dive too deeply into Karl Friston’s mathematics. As you will discover, he summarises its implications, describing Friston’s free energy as a quantifiable measure of how a system models the world and how it behaves. This notion leads to a very different idea of consciousness from Descartes’s reason-centric version that set up the puzzling dualism of “mind” and “matter”, a la Damasio's Descartes Error. Mark explores the “cortical fallacy,” which refers to his view that neuroscientists who have argued that the “seat of consciousness” is in the cortex are wrong. Recent neuroscience has shed light on where this is.
As Mark points out, damage to just two cubic millimetres of the upper brainstem will “obliterate all consciousness.”
So where does it "Spring" from?
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:12 Teeing Up “The Cortical Fallacy” with hydranencephaly, a rare condition in which the brain's cerebral hemispheres are absent and replaced by sacs filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
00:02:37 “The Cortical Fallacy”
00:18:14 The Report-ability Problem of Consciousness
00:31:00 Chemical and Pharmacological Probes
00:37:00 1949 discovery of the Reticular Activating System
00:55:25 The Reticular Activating System: Salience, Filtering, Gratitude, Law of Attraction
00:58:00 The Mr W joke and The Global Workspace Theory

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Informative!

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The CNS is the boss, peace

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Timestamps done by Open AI
00:00:00.472 Introduction and Setting the Stage
00:02:37.877 The Importance and Justification of Challenging Neuropsychology's Assumptions
00:03:59.287 The Definition of Cortex
00:05:28.056 The Definition of Persistent Vegetative State
00:08:10.370 Aidan's passage challenges the hypothesis of the cortex as consciousness seat.
00:08:48.803 Consciousness and Emotional Responses in Children
00:14:14.823 Brainstem and the Generation of Conscious Presence
00:15:59.173 The challenge of reportability and consciousness in children and animals
00:19:12.437 Assessing consciousness through behaviour and response to stimuli
00:21:33.289 Brainstem's role in emotional states through brain scans
00:24:06.317 Cortex inhibits emotions, damage leads to hyper-emotionality
00:33:05.135 Psychiatry and the Role of the Reticular Activating System
00:36:11.383 Discovering the Reticular Activating System
00:44:25.900 The Origins of Empiricism in Philosophy of Mind
00:47:12.767 Unconscious Information in the Brainstem
00:48:26.247 Dogs: Idiotic but Not Deaf
00:49:48.694 Freud's Contributions to Neuroscience and Mind Blindness
00:53:01.138 The Question of Consciousness and the Role of Feeling
00:58:44.054 The Consciousness Theory and Prefrontal Cortex

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thank you for the content - breakdown and for the fantastic idea to dedicate a series to this seminal work!!

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