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You may not have realized it yet, but the United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
However, it really is something to celebrate, not least because the electronic device that you are using to read this article depends on some of the advanced applications of quantum phenomena.
This year was chosen because 2025 marks the centenary of the publication of the first articles on quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics.
Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist who is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He’s a best-selling author and has written several books including “Consciousness and the Social Brain”, “Re-thinking Consciousness”, “The Spaces Between Us”, and much more. His scientific research at Graziano Lab focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the “attention schema theory” (AST), an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 — Introduction.
2:12 — Meet Dr Michael Graziano: The Consciousness Theorist.
6:44 — What Is Consciousness? A Deep Dive.
11:35 — The Illusion of Consciousness.
15:20 — Attention Schema Theory.
20:05 — Mystery of Self-Awareness and the ‘I’
25:10 — The Hard Problem vs. the Meta Problem of Consciousness.
30:55 — Social Awareness & Dehumanization.
34:20 — Effect of Social Media on Human Interaction.
38:05 — Role of Attention in Machine Consciousness.
41:55 — Creating an AI Mind: Step by Step Guide.
47:30 — Exploring the Building Blocks of Artificial Consciousness.
51:15 — AI Self-Perception: Can Machines Be Conscious?
56:10 — Challenging the Magical vs. Scientific View of Consciousness.
1:00:40 — Consciousness: A Choice Between Magic and Science?
1:05:12 — Attention in Machine Learning: A Closer Look.
1:10:55 — The Psychology of Human Perception.
1:14:20 — Social Awareness and the Digital Revolution.
1:18:35 — Conclusion.
EPISODE LINKS:
Michael’s Website: https://grazianolab.princeton.edu/
Michael’s Books: https://tinyurl.com/2eufd62r.
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D.P. Kroese, Z.I. Botev, T. Taimre, R. Vaisman. Data Science and Machine Learning: Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 2019.
The purpose of this book is to provide an accessible, yet comprehensive textbook intended for students interested in gaining a better understanding of the mathematics and statistics that underpin the rich variety of ideas and machine learning algorithms in data science.
Investors sign hundreds of term sheets over their careers. Founders only do so a handful of times. When you’re raising money to bring your idea to life, there are a myriad of decisions you need to make — what sources of funding to pursue, how to structure your company, what timeline you should work towards. […]
The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly.
Together with herpetologists, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered and quantified a new type of locomotion in juvenile anacondas.
As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young anacondas are much more spry—capable of a quick, one-off, skating movement the researchers dubbed the “S-start” due to the shape the snake makes with its body.