#zoomposium

🎧Unseen Sound – How Your Brain Processes Inner Music🧠 What actually happens when we hum a melody in our heads—without any external sound? It’s a fascinating idea: there’s no actual sound in our heads, just a representation of sound. It’s as if our mind doesn’t hear music, but rather encodes it—much like data on a CD. Not acoustically, not truly digitally, but in a unique form of internal representation. In our Zoomposium with Daniel C. Dennett, it becomes clear: Consciousness is less a “place” where things happen, and more a process of processing, interpretation, and simulation. Our inner experiences—even something as seemingly direct as music—are constructs that the brain generates in its own “medium.” This raises exciting questions: 👉 What exactly do we experience when we “hear internally”? 👉 How does this representation differ from actual perception? 👉 And could an artificial system ever develop such inner “worlds of sound”? A fascinating insight into the nature of consciousness—somewhere between philosophy, neuroscience, and information theory.

én pontosan 1 óra 30 percnél kezdek, borzasztó akcentussal, mert iszonyúan izgultam.

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

🦠 Consciousness – Does It Really Require a Brain🧠? The notion that consciousness arises exclusively in the human brain is increasingly being questioned in modern philosophy of mind and neuroscience. Based on the theory of neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, a fascinating perspective emerges: 👉 Consciousness could arise wherever certain forms of integrated information processing exist. This would mean: Not only complex living beings with brains possess consciousness—but possibly even single-celled organisms in a fundamental form. The brain would therefore not be the “source” of consciousness, but rather a highly developed biological structure for organizing and intensifying conscious processes. In the Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. Godehard Brüntrup SJ, these very questions will be discussed: 🔹 Does consciousness require a new metaphysics? 🔹 Can panpsychism fill a gap in our understanding? 🔹 What role do process philosophy and liberal naturalism play? 🔹 And what do near-death experiences mean for our understanding of mind and reality? Perhaps consciousness is not a phenomenon unique to humans—but a fundamental principle of nature itself. 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/ 🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

From John Wheeler's participatory universe to quantum information—an exciting look at the metaphysics of reality! 📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/V4pUEEtFCUo 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/16/zoomposium-gerd-gantefoer/

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🧠🎭 Decoding Consciousness: How the Brain’s Architecture Creates Our Sense of Self A highly complex, self-organized system, a dynamic theatrical stage, and the ultimate question: Can the brain ever fully understand itself? In this issue of Zoomposium, we take a deep dive into neurophilosophy. Our guest this time is none other than the renowned neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer. The thematic focus is on one of the most exciting questions in modern neuroscience: How does the physical architecture of our brain give rise to the elusive phenomenon of consciousness? The focus is on a particularly elegant explanation developed in the 1980s: the “Workplace of Consciousness” theory (Baars). Let’s imagine the cerebral cortex as an extremely distributed system. The individual elements of our experience are widely scattered: visual stimuli in the visual cortex, sounds in the auditory cortex, and complex decisions in the prefrontal cortex. But how do these isolated fragments merge into the single, seamless perception that we experience as our consciousness? The answer lies in a fascinating, fluid dynamic: • The theater metaphor: Consciousness does not reside in a fixed location in the brain. It is constituted only through the temporary and lightning-fast linking of different brain regions as needed. • The Orchestra in Our Heads: In conscious states, a significant increase in certain measures of coherence can be measured. This means that when we consciously perceive something, regions of the cerebral cortex that are far apart suddenly cooperate in perfect synchrony. • A Highly Dynamic Process: This flexible architecture allows our thinking organ to retrieve any content from memory, connect it with other information, and hold it in the spotlight of consciousness for a brief moment. It is precisely this nonlinear dynamic that leads us directly to the great philosophical puzzles we examine in our interview with Wolf Singer: Does this naturalistic approach actually close the notorious “explanatory gap” of philosophy’s “hard problem”? If everything is based on neurophysiological processes, is free will then merely a useful social construct? And could such complex feedback mechanisms perhaps even be replicated “in silicio” in the future as strong artificial intelligence? An absolutely gripping conversation at the intersection of hard science and profound epistemology. 📺 Watch the conversation: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

• Is John Wheeler right with his concept of a “participatory universe,” in which the observer creates the world in the first place? • Does classical materialism perhaps represent only a small part of true reality, and do we need to understand information as an immaterial building block? • Do we need a completely new metaphysics of time? Look forward to a gripping conversation at the intersection of natural science, philosophy, and scientific humor! 💬 Discussion prompt for the network: If, at the smallest scale, nature only takes on a fixed form through the act of observation—what does that say about the nature of our entire reality? Do we live in a universe that couldn’t exist at all without a consciousness to observe it? I look forward to your comments! 👇 📺 Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/V4pUEEtFCUo 📖 More on this topic: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/16/zoomposium-gerd-gantefoer/