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Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Dec 22, 2022
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3 hr 5 min
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Ep 122
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LINKS MENTIONED: TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:50 Overview of insights and autobiography 00:07:28 How are mental representations achieved? 00:16:37 Living in a world of symbols 00:23:11 Indexical Relationships 00:26:49 The language problem 00:29:47 Molecular binding and Covariant Relationships 00:39:45 Structural Information and Recursion 00:44:26 1,2,3, Repeat, Chomsky and Universal Grammar 00:51:19 Chomsky's Universals and Turing Machines 01:02:15 Gödel and minimizing ambiguity 01:10:13 Establishing reference and meaning 01:14:59 Noise and signals 01:20:08 The Symbol Grounding Problem ("The Hard Problem of Meaning") 01:30:06 Where does value come from? 01:37:28 Life is a process far from equilibrium 02:14:46 Homeodynamics and Teleodynamics 02:17:02 Sentience vs. Consciousness 02:39:55 Epistemology is tied to Ontology 02:45:31 Universal Grammar (with a capital "U") goes all the way down to chemistry 02:51:48 Absence and "Nothingness" (our existence is based in "absence") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
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