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Variable Minds
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Variable Minds intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. Hear from experts on cognition in humans, nonhumans and AI. Dive into the hard problem of consciousness and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT).
This channel also explores the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.
I'm Andréa Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher, science and technology investigative journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers. My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.
This channel also explores the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.
I'm Andréa Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher, science and technology investigative journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers. My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.
Are We Blind to Alien Intelligence? FULL EPISODE
Solving our universe’s greatest mysteries may hinge on understanding intelligence-human, artificial, or extraterrestrial-and investigating whether ancient alien life is right under our nose. Harvard astrophysicist and UAP/UFO field investigator Avi Loeb discusses a future where we co-exist with super-intelligent AI and a possible “cosmic neighbor” capable of either enlightening or conquering us. This episodic documentary features developmental synthetic biologist Michael Levin (creator of Xenobots, the first AI-designed bio-robots) and complexity scientists and origins-of-life researchers Stuart Kauffman and Joana Xavier, whose work may reshape our definition of “lyfe.”
We dig into the biases, barriers and blindspots in science and academia that hold back progress, and the mindsets that catalyze scientific revolutions.
▶️ Read my article on Forbes that also includes insights from Nobel laureate Adam Riess:
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▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” rb.gy/p8iwc
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I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.
Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries. Podumentaries.
This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT).
I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.
We dig into the biases, barriers and blindspots in science and academia that hold back progress, and the mindsets that catalyze scientific revolutions.
▶️ Read my article on Forbes that also includes insights from Nobel laureate Adam Riess:
rebrand.ly/c928w3o
▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris
▶️ Subscribe: rb.gy/qqo0i
Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved.
Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by an overly tired human (please forgive me if a typo slips through)
___________________
▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: rb.gy/pstfz
▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” rb.gy/p8iwc
_________________
I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.
Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries. Podumentaries.
This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT).
I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.
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Science Is Reconsidering Evolution
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Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene faces a formidable challenge as biophysicist Denis Noble makes a case for evolution driven by purpose, intention and a collective intelligence of organisms. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com rb.gy/db2ahv ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe: rb.gy/qqo0i For more information and research discussed in the video and article : 📌 Scientific J...
Roger Penrose's Mind-Bending Theory of Reality
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Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose on his Orch OR theory of consciousness that could change what we know about time, the universe and reality, by incorporating the physics of consciousness. Explore mind blowing facts about our reality that show consciousness in quantum mechanics. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com rb.gy/s5uzf ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe: rb.gy/...
AI thinks in different dimensions
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Amanda Stent is the Director of Colby College’s Davis Institute for AI, the first AI institute at a Liberal Arts college in the United States. We talk about interpretable AI and why humans are incapable of understanding multidimensional AI concepts. We also discuss AI alignment, alien intelligence, AI sentience, equitable AI, transparency, copyright, and prompt engineering as a fundamental curr...
I Discovered The Truth About AI Unpredictability
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Computer Scientist, Kentaro Toyama, explains simple reason that predicting AI decisions will always be out of reach and the event that might save us from AI existential threat. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com: rb.gy/vt7m6 ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of e...
Neuroscientist Builds AI, Says They Think and Understand
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An interview with neuroscientist and computer scientist, AI expert, Blake Richards. Working in Geoffrey Hinton's lab (known as the 'Godfather of AI'), Richards developed expertise that has put him at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field. Richards talks about key differences between AI and human minds and goals, and the challenge of understanding and predicting both AI and Human decision...
157 Scientists Demand An Investigation
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Consciousness scientists Jonathan Mason on the open letter urging the acceleration of consciousness research, a reaction to break-neck AI developments. Are these AI tools? Prediction machines? And are we all that different from a word calculator? As we race towards AGI and deepfakes blow through Turing tests, hear about the wild ways that advances in large language models like chatGPT could cha...
Sudden Emergence or Mirage? Scientist Reveals Findings
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An interview with computer scientist and AI researcher Rylan Schaeffer about his time as an intern at Google DeepMind and his current research challenging claims of sharp and unpredictable emergent abilities in AI large language models (LLMs). We talk about ChatGPT, interpretable machine learning, hierarchical reinforcement learning and surprising things that happen when you let intelligent mac...
This is the guy who should re-boot Dr. Who with a simplified, less scary, more intellectual story written for children, about slightly older children who get in adventures.
Consciousness attracts a lot of flaky ideas... That says it all.
Best channel!
Macro Evolution is pretty much dead. ID has taken over.
You are so stupid don't reven reality this would mean dying all painful deaths tortures forever, universe is not even real and you are in simulation this is why elites rule ^^
Evolution is completely FALSE and absurd. Intelligent Design science which can be researched is undeniable proof there is a creator. All life started as one cell on earth according to evolution and now 9 million or more different insanely complex different species on accident what a joke, the human brain alone is the most complex structure in the entire universe
I didn't understand any of this, but it was brilliant. Agree about scientific dogma, though.
I'm not the smartest guy out there, but why would your mother's eggs be needed to recreate you, when your genetic information is already present? Aren't you already a genetic composite of your parents?
The truth is we are a highly evolved life form in the universe, where our cognitive awareness is merely that of our emergent interfacing as a non-essential character with the external world, other than assistants to self-replication and survival. There is cognitive awareness at every level of our evolved system that becomes DNA programming that can be uploaded to new replicas and enables eternal life. Our subconscious is likely well aware of our mortal existence and has found a way around it. The only purpose of awareness is convergence towards a stable attractor. I don't see any purpose of self-evolving intelligence that manifests from this complex realm, other than to exist and manifest from a realm that appears to be intelligently created for this to occur. I say this because intelligence cannot emerge from nothing.
Brillant interview with many nuances considered & discussed !
I am so glad that I came across this video , very interesting . I will have to watch it again . Thank you !
Its a joy to listen in, a year since i last watched this. I love this man and im glad he loves discussing things with you that are puzzling to him. Can almost see his thoughts. None of which are random
when you consider this and Orch-OR, and recent discoveries about Mitochondria, Orchestrated Evolution by Consciousness becomes pretty apparent... reality really is running on something like CTMU...
biology is a product of quantum consciousness
Andrea's Forbes article: "The scientific story of who we are is a reductionist, gene-centric model that forfeits natural phenomena like purpose due to its association with *intelligent design and a transcendent, intelligent designer."* Professor Noble: "...I didn't say *that shit"* 29:25
try reading that sentence again
@@VariableMinds What?
I’ll confirm with Noble and submit an erratum if you can kindly clarify where you think I may have misrepresented him?
@@VariableMinds Oh actually I did misread what you typed my bad lmao
γ=±λ′ f=c/λ′ Time dilation is proportional to wavelength and inversely proportional to frequency. This respects the law of conservation and shows the Bible is true through e=mc² because both mention the rate of light "c²" is the speed of light "let there be light" was a direct mention of its importance. It was God's first act, which would have also been his last. Light propagates through space, and it's intensity stretches across vast darkness, which lead to chemical/electro-magnetic differences, which lead to differentiation.
Disingenuous to say science is reconsidering evolution when what you seem to mean is that a lone fringe scientist is reconsidering it. That isn’t how science works.
compare Orch-OR to CTMU
the quantum nature of consciousness is WHY a CONSCIOUS observer violates the wave form. the quantum nature of consciousness is HOW free will actually works...
I don't recall in high school nor college when professors of Biology or Genetics ever having Neo-Darwinism on any lecture or curriculum and it stands to reason that explaining phenotype and genotype continues to rely on the ballet-like interplay of environmental and hereditary factors and finally evolution.
"The "ALL", is "MIND". The "Universe", is "Mental"... "EYE" gaze upon the Stars. "EYE" Realize.. "EYE" see my Own Reflection... "EYE AM" ! An "Electro-Magnetic Wave", having a "Material Particle" Experience, in the Eye of God... My Spirit is Electric, and my Soul is Magnetic.
May the Cosmos grant you another 100 years of razor sharp thinking Mr Noble
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I understand. It can be deeply uncomfortable entertaining ideas that don’t align with your philosophical commitments. For everyone else, stay tuned for my next video with developmental synthetic biologist Michael Levin on his discoveries that demonstrate cellular cognition
@VariableMinds No it's not uncomfortable. It's waste of my time to entertain nonesense and clickbait.
Good conclusion!
Thanks, Andrea, for this interview, your chanel is really underrated, bussines as usual, the system structre favours the average scientist that is a mediocre so you get mediocrity. The H index for publications promotes the scientist who doesn't take any risk, having many students they reach easily hundreds of publications so they increase the H index with mediocrity. A scientist with a peak publication with 1000 citations is ignored. By the way, please take a look of the work of Prof. C.S. UNNIKRISHNAN at arXiv, Reconstructing QM without foundational problems.
excellent ty ∆
That would completely ruin r3l!g1on if that were to happen.
@@13lueBomber no it wouldn't , doesn't change the message of christ / what he taught or whether or not there is a creator of everything
no it wouldn't , doesn't change what christ taught or whether or not there is a creator
@@13lueBomber science is best‼️
Hell yea if I see aliens landing somewhere I’m immediately getting there as fast as I can, idc if I die I’ll be the first human to see aliens lol
It is clear none of the critiques of Penrose's work could possibly be valid. He stays well within his area of expertise. How exactly these two worlds relate is so interesting, why are these experiments not funded! Are the quantum & classical realities the same thing, where quantum has many branches and classical has one? Are they perhaps separate, where quantum maintains the branches (perhaps persisted evidence of these multiple states as hinted at by Andrea) and the collapse is the edge between quantum and classical, an anti-entropy link backward in time, the "retroactivity"? If it really were the same, and all branches maintained, then we are back at multiverse, except the alternate universe information is fully quantum and never classical - so you, classical human, can't visit them. The entanglement at a distance experiments already prove that quantum doesn't care about space. Space is not separate from time, it is spacetime. Those same experiments are proven to be at least instantaneous - more so according to Penrose given retroactivity, but this is where the experiment is missing and he makes no absolute claim for this as truth! Even without the next step, the entanglement experiments prove quantum reality pays no heed to time (because it is spacetime) so there is no current disproof of the conjecture that collapse defies entropy and travels back in time. There are other experiments with antimatter that show matter annihilation with antiparticles appearing to travel backward in time. These are good motivations for exploring this further and not immediately discounting it. Pushing for the experiment is all about ensuring the idea is falsifiable, which is the core of what makes something science and gives full credibility to Penrose.
Φ Thank you...
Miss Xavier has the same voice ant tone as you! With a Spanish accent. Did you do this purposely in the editing room? Bit of entanglement as this was on a loop while I washed some dishes. Quantifiable entanglement. Answered my own question immediately! 29mins into another video of yours. Crazy considering the topic
Molecular biology, literally exposing the collaborative magic
Listen to the extraordinary scientific minds outside the main stream. For The answers
Thank you for this wonderful interview. Have you looked at the "presentiment" effect demonstrated in the experiments of Daryl Bem et al? It shows a retrocausal effect of a similar scale to what Penrose predicts.
The natural selection mechanism doesn’t create morphological changes.
An excellent interview, thank you, Andrea. As someone who has a truly open mind I really don't have a dog in the fight, but I am not surprised at the level of criticism articulated in the comments - sadly it is par for the course in the modern scientific discourse and, to be honest, Dawkins has been at the front of this dogmatic and excoriating style of critique. If science is going to advance in a meaningful way it will first require that people are prepared to forego their egos and challenge their own assumptions, no matter how vigorously they have defended them in the past.
Definitely by far the best Penrose podcast! The way these two interact is incredible. I’ve never heard Penrose so happy and excited by your question and analysis of his theories and explanations. Pure poetry using the language of the universe. I cant get enough of it. So stimulating
Yes and probably no, unless if we figure out way more about entanglement. But if you figure some about entanglement from there, plz let everyone know, since then that would be huge, for the step past light trial models. Which we even if get anything to test from, might never get
Genes can also appear as if to expose a symptom of disease. The current way of looking at things is that if we change a gene we think causes a problem, that we fix the problem, but if a gene only exposes the risk of getting a disease, then removal of the gene might do nothing. Yet, when this is shown in experiments, scientists argue that it isn't so. It flies in the face of accepting the results of experimental evidence, and is the reason why we haven't cured relatively simple conditions that we think we know a lot about, like sickle cell anemia.
Noble has been spewing this shit for decades with NO EVIDENCE of it.
It's amazing what you have achieved with so few videos on this channel, simply because the content you create is genuinely incredible. Regarding the videos, I especially loved the one with Penrose and Noble. If possible, I would highly recommend having a discussion with Wolfram and Gerard 't Hooft in the future-their ideas are truly fascinating. As for this video, I read the papers by Stuart Kauffman, and, respectfully speaking, I found them to be utter nonsense. They seem more like a fairy tale than a description of reality. Unlike Penrose, he doesn't even seem to bother following scientific methods. That said, I absolutely love your work. Keep it up!
Your videos would be much more enjoyable if they had timestamps for each subject. I like to watch podcasts by jumping from subject to subject.
Noble WAS an original thinker -- decades and decades ago -- but he simply has not kept up with the field of Evolutionary Biology! Just because HE doesn't understand The Selfish Gene doesn't mean it is wrong. It means Noble can't keep up! Noble has been flattered by religious fundamentalist (pretending to be scientists) so much that he has started to take them seriously! They have pulled the wool over his failing eyes and flailing brain ... and convinced him that if he doesn't "get" something, then it isn't true. Over and over he simply LIES about "neo-Darwinists" -- whoever the bugger THEY are ... but they seem to encompass the biggest threat to superstitions and religious Conmen -- Prof Richard Dawkins! This is a very common syndrome among ageing scientists -- Einstein being just the MOST distinguished example! Very sad, but any scientically literate person can -- easily -- see how Noble is ageing badly. And the utterly incompetent interviewer seems to have swallowed the entire Creationist Manifesto! "Genes are not the blueprint for life" but, apparently "life has a purpose" ... it's just the worn-out, dead, religious crap about the "Soul" being revived! 40:16
*Dennis Nobel* is reconsidering *Darwinian* evolution. *Science* is not reconsidering evolution nor even Darwinian evolution.
It's odd when people speak about science like it's a god.
@ 🤣 Like it’s a god? Tf you mean, I didn’t say anything remotely indicative of that. These days people will try to label anything as a “religion” just to make a stupid point. 🤦🏼♂️
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Anyone interested in a discussion on evidence for evolution, compared with evidence for creation? Which makes more sense?
Does it make any difference whether biological change is due to purposeful change or random mutations? The issue is, does a correct understanding lead to advances in medicine that otherwise would not be possible? I think the answer is no.
It’s crazy, all of these people writing papers with nothing to base their conclusions on. I think they just want to get more funding, or confuse people trying to make sense of what’s going on.
You can determine prime numbers by dividing any number by 3 and by 7. Miss Ashley Renee Elmer😊
Spinors that retroactively alter the general relative state within the quantum dimension? 🤷
Similar to LLMs with pattern recognition, we do the same thing with experienced reality in activities we repeatedly participate in which brings forward the totality of the experience, using sports as an example, we tend to call it muscle memory. Yes or no?
What if you measured the brainwaves of an individual performing introspective analysis on themselves and changing their perception that retroactively alter their overall perception? Would that be valid?