The Mathematics of Consciousness

The Mathematics of Consciousness

In this video I talk about a few approaches to mathematically describe consciousness and their shortcomings. I also briefly talk about what such studies could one day be good for.

 0:48 Integrated Information Theory      4:02 The Penrose-Hameroff microtubules conjecture              5:19 Palmer’s Quantum Creativity          6:26 Erra’s Optimal Synchronization                                           7:23 Mason’s Information Maximization       8:52 What is it good for?