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Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 8: A Predictive Hierarchy

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It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, Mark Solms. In this episode, we talk about the brain’s prediction system.

00:00:00.000 Introduction and Overview of the Chapter
00:03:30.388 Establishment of the Meteorology Department
00:11:59.546 The Fundamental Task: Minimizing Free Energy
00:15:43.370 Feelings: Connecting Us to Our Ancestors
00:19:36.790 Neglecting the inter-receptive and extra-receptive in cognitive science
00:22:30.002 The brain’s attempt to contain environmental effects on the organism
00:31:32.675 Innate Predictions: Fear and Instinctual Behaviors
00:34:19.723 The Evolution of Responses and Predictive Model Complexification
00:42:59.118 The Brain: Ones and Zeroes, Predictions and Errors
00:54:18.834 The Brain as an Organization
00:59:57.338 Emotional Needs and Scripts

The Homeostatic Organisation / Organism

Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Consciousness Entrepreneurship Entropy Homeostasis Innovation Leadership Mark Solms Technology The Free Energy Principle The hidden spring Undisruptable

Resisting entropy is a fundamental function of living things. Similarly, organisations that resist change become victims of entropy, disrupting the balance of their systems and tipping the scales towards entropy. Maintaining homeostasis is not an event. It is a continual process. Maintaining success requires effort, constant renewal and permanent reinvention.

Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 7: Free Energy

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It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, Mark Solms. We share terms like Markov Blankets, The Free Energy Principle, Homeostasis, and Entropy.

Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 6: The P.A.G.

Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Consciousness Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Leadership Mark Solms PAG Technology The hidden spring the periaqueductal grey Undisruptable

It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, Mark Solms.

In this episode, we will discuss questions such as where does arousal come from anatomically and how does it arise physiologically? And the central question of today is where the seemingly magical shift from automatic reflex to volitional feeling occurs. Today, we will share some terms like synaptic transmission, reuptake, post-synaptic modulation and the role of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and we will also explain the role of the PAG, the periaqueductal grey.

The Adversity Advantage Today's Struggles Brew Tomorrow's Strength

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Our struggles today build adversity muscles for tomorrow.

Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 5: Feelings 2

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Neuropsychology pioneer and author of The Hidden Spring, covers the impact of the affects: Seeking, Play and Fear

Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 4: Feelings 1

Posted 1 year ago Tagged Affective Neuroscience Aidan McCullen Business Disruption Feelings Leadership Mark Solms The hidden spring Transformation

Feelings are difficult to research because they are inherently subjective, but If we exclude feelings from our account of the brain, we will never understand how it works. You tell us, to a fantastic degree, neuroscientists searching for an explanation of consciousness have ignored feelings. Mark Solms takes us on an exploration of Feelings and te work of his friend and collaborator, Jaak Panksepp.

Hire For Neurosignature, Train for Skill: The Brain is Like a Waterbed

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Hire For Neurosignature, Train for Skill: The Brain is Like a Waterbed. Audio version of our popular article.

Mark Solms The Hidden Spring The Cortical Fallacy

Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring Part 3: The Cortical Fallacy

Posted 1 year ago Tagged Consciousness describing Friston’s free energy as a quantifiable measure of how a system models the world and how it behaves. he summarises its implications In The Hidden Spring Mark Solms our guest Mark Solms does not dive too deeply into Karl Friston’s mathematics. As you will discover Technology The Cortical Fallacy Mark Solms

In The Hidden Spring, our guest Mark Solms does not dive too deeply into Karl Friston’s mathematics. As you will discover, he summarises its implications, describing Friston’s free energy as a quantifiable measure of how a system models the world and how it behaves. This notion leads to a very different idea of consciousness from Descartes’s reason-centric version that set up the puzzling dualism of “mind” and “matter”, a la Damasio’s Descartes Error. Mark explores the “cortical fallacy,” which refers to his view that neuroscientists who have argued that the “seat of consciousness” is in the cortex are wrong. Recent neuroscience has shed light on where this is.

As Mark points out, damage to just two cubic millimetres of the upper brainstem will “obliterate all consciousness.”

So where does it “Spring” from?