Episode 6: Conversation with Barry Komisaruk

This is the 6th of a series of conversations with Barry Komisaruk.

This conversation focused on the nature(s) of body maps in brain and mind, including some initial discussions of how these may inform our understanding of the physical and computational substrates of consciousness.

Last week's discussion (with previous discussions linked in the video description):


Some links of potential relevance for today's discussion:

Body-perception as inference:
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Flexible fundamental body maps:
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee & Matthew Blakeslee

Electromagnetic information exchange for neural activity:
Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons | Nature Neuroscience

Holographic principle:
Nature’s cosmic hard drive? Black holes could store information like holograms | Ars Technica

Consciousness, homunculi, electromagnetic coordination (and dimensionality reduction/channeling) of neural activity:
Does an Ionic or Biophoton Plasma Transduce Neural Activity into Subjective Conscious Awareness?

Phenomenal binding via body maps:
The Radically Embodied Conscious Cybernetic Bayesian Brain: From Free Energy to Free Will and Back Again

Models of cortical computation:
Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) Expanded: Implications for Theories of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence