Christof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Measured?

Professor Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program. He received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics in 1982. Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 until 2013, Koch was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, from his initial appointment as Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1986, to his final position as Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology. Christof joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became President in 2015. Christof writings and interests integrate theoretical, computational and experimental neuroscience with philosophy and contemporary trends, in particular artificial intelligence.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Christof's Website: https://christofkoch.com/
- Christof's Books: https://tinyurl.com/2p98tkr5
- Christof's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/yc797jaz
- Christof's Work: https://tinyurl.com/55bajt84

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Introduction
(1:29) - Romantic Reductionism & Consciousness
(2:49) - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) & Philosophy
(7:10) - Explaining "Phi"
(14:13) - IIT & Falsifiability
(16:46) - What is considered fundamental in a theory consciousness
(19:26) - IIT's relation to other theories of consciousness
(24:15) - Multidisciplinary approach to consciousness
(28:47) - Can AI be truly conscious?
(33:53) - From Illusionism to Phenomenology
(38:06) - Descartes' Pineal Gland vs Christof's Claustrum
(40:29) - IIT & Neuropsychiatry
(44:22) - Free Will & Neural Correlates
(50:20) - Religion, Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning
(53:33) - Mortality (loss of consciousness)
(59:35) - Conclusion

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