Mark Solms

Another mind-blowing conversation, this time with Mark Solms, the neuropsychoanalist from the University of Cape Town, about his feeling-based theory of consciousness, how competing homeostatic needs lead to prioritization of responding to feelings, expressing these needs internally. At about the one hour mark, we go beyond and discuss how feelings can be understood as messages between hierarchical levels of conscious nested organisms.Mark's book: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Spring-Journey-Source-Consciousness/dp/0393542017A nine-episode conversation about the book: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxiNrgE29RIKY3hzQQlFZzkH85xsB4VrRelated episodes:Kevin Mitchell: https://youtu.be/nqxq-BiCr-MMichael Levin: https://youtu.be/0nMXYdayQIUEmbodied AI: https://youtu.be/JZ8GTucClpMAlexander Ororbia: https://youtu.be/N83vBfz7_BIYogi Jaeger: https://youtu.be/5UJ4y2L2qpkBaudouin Saintyves: https://youtu.be/NmvzEpz9R84Laura Desiree Di Paolo: https://youtu.be/9txUwVtAOBkAnna Riedl: https://youtu.be/w2ZiSWZNQsgAnna Ciaunica: https://youtu.be/x1QHwhlCn-8Giuseppe Paolo: https://youtu.be/R7tEd65e2i800:00:00 Intro00:04:35 Feeling-based consciousness. Anatomy: brain-stem vs cortical models.00:20:43 The free energy principle and active inference. Do membranes exist? 00:41:00 The mechanisms of consciousness and the role of feeling. Prioritization of needs, voluntary actions, choice. Categorically different needs lead to qualia.01:00:19 Hierarchical levels of nested organisms and feelings as messages.01:27:46 Engineering consciousness. Is autopoiesis necessary?I, scientist blog: https://balazskegl.substack.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/balazskeglArtwork: DALL-EMusic: Bea Palya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDp3qcFZdU1yoWIRpMSaZw Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.