2024 TSC PLENARY - 2 'CORTICAL OSCILLATIONS, WAVES AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Tues, April 23, 2024 11:10 AM - 12:30 PM - PLENARY 2 'CORTICAL OSCILLATIONS, WAVES AND CONSCIOUSNESS 1' - EARL K. MILLER, KEYNOTE
Earl Keith Miller is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on neural mechanisms of cognitive, or executive, control. Earl K. Miller is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of SplitSage. Earl Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude, with honors) in psychology from Kent State University in 1985, Master of Arts degree in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University in 1987, and a PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University in 1990. In 2020, Earl Miller was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Science, honoris causa) from Kent State University. (Keynote/Plen 2)
2024 The Science of Consciousness 30th Annual
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[@user-sx9lb1uv5m]

Thank you for the wonderful presentation. I’ve been following along now for awhile and the waves oscillations states, perception, evolution, reason for reality, does make a practical case. I remember reading an article awhile ago you wrote on how and why does consciousness work. I thought of it as more of a mind sense, of an amorphous space how could it be created to have an imagination when reading. How can we think about thoughts to form metacognitive systems. How can we practice or simulate in our minds. Perception shapes the way we see the world.
Expand your world view. Expand your perspective.Lived experience. It seemingly seems to be a large part of the equation perhaps. Thanks again .

[@nyworker]

The human expression "It makes sense" perhaps reflects what happens when those waves move through our brain.

[@PetraKann]

The total number of different neural connections in the Human Brain is perhaps the largest known finite number that has a physical significance.
10 raised to the power of 700 trillion is a very big number.
Good luck in using the reductionist approach to explain how the brain/mind works.

[@stephengee4182]

It takes 266 coin flips for total possible results (2^266~1.2×10^80) to exceed the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe (~10^80).

[@stephengee4182]

It takes 266 coin flips for total possible results (2^266~1.2×10^80) to exceed the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe (~10^80).

[@nyworker]

That's a micro level description. Like trying to understand how a car moves from one place to another based on metallurgy. You're just obfuscating yourself with statistics.

[@PetraKann]

@@nyworker True. Just highlighting the numerical abyss that reductionist approaches face.
The 10 raised to 700 trillion figure is based on the documented work of Barrow who published a book on large numbers.
The number is based on neuron clusters of 100. A conservative assumption yet still the total number of different neural connections is ridiculously big.
The hard problem of consciousness still remains uncracked.
I have feeling that it is due to the complexity of the way the mind works and the total capacity available for computation and memory.
It's not a very well understood field at the moment.....

[@nyworker]

@@PetraKann I agree.

[@nyworker]

He has no clue what is actually happening inside the neurons to generate these electrical waves.