Pascal Wallisch, professor of data science, psychology and neural science at New York University, returns in chapter two to talk about psychophysics, Gustav Fechner, stimulus vs. perception, brain diversity, psychopaths, psychedelics, movie preferences, consciousness, linguistics and the Turing Test!
Chapter One with Pascal: https://youtu.be/bzFVdg6WjKUPascal: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/pascal-wallisch.html
SHOW NOTES:
1) 'Energy, Quanta, and Vision' by Hecht, Shlaer and Pirenne: https://www.cns.nyu.edu/csh/csh06/PDFs/Hecht1942.pdf
2) Brief overview of inner and outer psychophysics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11954556/
3) Paper on similarity between CNNs and neurons: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18957212/Also attached.
4) Elite athletes and visual cortex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12765616/ &https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1728869X24000789
5) Paper on acid and other psychedelics and how they change perception: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1518377113
6) Paper on 10 emotional responses by psychopaths: https://www.foxlabnyu.com/research-projects/psychopathy
7) Paper on how 5 seconds is enough when you listen to music: https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/40/3/220/195231/The-Whole-is-Not-Different-From-its-PartsMusic?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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TIMELINE
0:00 Introduction
1:28 Entropy
3:57 Gustav Fechner
8:08 Psychophysics
13:18 Fechner’s Law
15:59 Stimulus vs. Perception
23:32 Brain Diversity
27:39 Psychedelics
31:26 Psychopaths
45:37 Movie Preferences
50:28 Horror Movies
53:19 Beauty & Neuroaesthetics
56:56 Consciousness
1:04:39 The Trolley Problem
1:14:14 AI Consciousness
1:17:59 Linguistics
1:27:18 The Turing Test
1:31:15 Physics
1:36:27 Information Realism
1:40:33 Lego Interpretation
1:41:27 Advice & Meaning of Life
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