nineteen ways of looking at consciousness by patrick house

So you're kind of asking like, 'What is that about? Is there really physiology there? Is there a real true reason for that?' I think there's this funny thing where there's a different way in which memories get tagged. So one thing it means is- I mean, there's this truism, right? There's this kind of aphorism that people often remember the way someone makes you feel, but not what they've said. Just straight to meta right away, I love it. What do you think that it means that I recall our chat with happiness and it was a kind of experience, but I don't really remember any of it? I recall a stimulating conversation on a windy night on a street corner, and I recall our chat with happiness and satisfaction although I do not remember the exact details. His recent book is Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, which is a fascinating look at what we don't understand and may never understand about consciousness. In alphabetical order, Patrick is a neuroscientist and a writer. I'm super excited to be speaking to Patrick House. Listen below (or wherever you listen to pods) or on video (above or on YouTube) and the transcript is below. It was lovely long form chat about consciousness and the mind. “My suggestion is to have phenomenological date night with whoever you're interested in the world and ask what their dreams are really like and if it's in images or what inside of their head is really like and see if you get anything, see if you solve any conflict.” Patrick asks me if I would write a play only for robots. What he thinks of AI and why he no longer plays Go What translating poetry has in common with understanding consciousness

What he finds the most terrifying result in neuroscience

What he meant by: 'If I were asked to create, from scratch and under duress, a universal mechanism for passing consciousness from parent to child, I would probably come up with something a bit like grafting a plant.' ? Did this indicate that emotional responses are simply an aspect of the physical matter inside our skulls?” (Short Kirkus Review) At one point, the surgeons touched a part of the brain that made her laugh. House repeatedly returns to a case in which a woman was undergoing brain surgery to address epilepsy. “Consider different translations of a poem: Each has something relevant to say, but none can entirely capture the essence. He’s written a collection of essays: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness on what we really don’t understand about consciousness. This chat – which I may not fully recall – involved speaking on what consciousness is, and touched on his work on mind-control bugs.

We once had a long chat on the rainy streets of Glasgow. His research focused on the neuroscience of free will and in particular how mind-control parasites altered a rat’s behaviour. Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer.

Nineteen ways of looking at consciousness by patrick house