The Simulation Within with Karl Friston

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Are we all living in a simulation inside our brains? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the root of perception, if AI really is intelligent, and The Free Energy Principle with theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston.

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0:00.0	So guys I was delighted to learn all the ways that principles of physics could be borrowed by
0:07.3	neuroscientists to try to understand how our brain works.
0:11.3	Because at the end of the day, there's physics and everything else is just opinion.
0:15.7	If you say so, yourself.
0:18.5	I love how you get to say that.
0:21.0	But it's the physics of intelligence.
0:23.0	The physics of neuroscience is really what that is about.
0:25.0	As you've educated us, the physics is in everything.
0:29.0	Yes.
0:30.0	You just don't think of it as being in neuroscience.
0:32.0	Yeah, because we've compartmentalized what people do
0:35.3	as professional scientists into their own textbook
0:38.6	and their own journals and their own departments
0:40.5	at universities at the end of the day we are one.
0:44.0	It's all physics people.
0:45.0	It's all physics people.
0:46.0	At the end, that's the lesson we learn.
0:48.0	Coming up, all that and more on Star Talk, Special Edition.
0:56.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
1:01.0	Star Talk begins right now.
1:05.0	This is Star Talk, special edition.
1:10.0	Meale the Grass Tyson here,
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