Ask A Genius 313 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (7)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 313 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (7) October 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So you don't have to replace the entire active universe with a whole other active universe to change your mind to have a new thought instead most of the universe can hang around and just …

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Ask A Genius 312 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (6)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 312 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (6) October 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We've thought that this requires an entire reshuffling of the contents of the universe. That the current active universe, all its contents are pushed to the side and then other parts of the universe that …

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Ask A Genius 311 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 311 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (5) October 5, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Language is your brain picking out the right words for a situation or formulating a sentence and this whole thing is this constructivist versus the essentialist, the essentialist is that you run it just as …

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Ask A Genius 310 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 310 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (4) October 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, its groups of you know big ass groups of neurons in complicated patterns of connectivity, somebody did some kind of study on the patterns of such kind of activity and discover that those patterns …

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Ask A Genius 309 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 309 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (3) October 3, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, its groups of you know big ass groups of neurons in complicated patterns of connectivity, somebody did some kind of study on the patterns of such kind of activity and discover that those patterns …

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Ask A Genius 308 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 308 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (2) October 2, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: But it looks like products of mental information processing of cognition are expressed or are constituted by patterns of neurons firing which is the constructivist point of view or that there's not like a particular …

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Ask A Genius 307 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 307 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (1) October 1, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We're talking about the constructivist form of thought versus the essentialist form of thought; both are theories to describe the general structure in there for the outcome of human thought. What are your own …

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Ask A Genius 305 – Science Faction and Fiction (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 305 – Science Faction and Fiction (2) September 29, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: One of the things going on that are amenable to short stories or the inadequately captured. I mean aren’t adequately capture the grand scale transformation have life in the context of 200 years. The cyberpunk which …

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Ask A Genius 304 – Science Faction and Fiction (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 304 – Science Faction and Fiction (1) September 28, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: All right, so what isn’t going to happen in science fiction. So we're not all going to Mars well people may colonize Mars. That's a multi-century project to terraform Mars and not that many people …

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Ask A Genius 303 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 303 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (2) September 27, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And it’s not the best argument but it's you know just a little dinky argument that eyes are such an efficient funnel of outside information into the brain, they take what's going on the outside and …

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