Muddy

Taken from the album "Deep Ground" [SSD03]

Deep Ground

Storisende

June - 2019 edition of the **Shaped by What We Love** Threads radio show with Olaf Stephenson & Rajinald Perrin live from the Threads Radio studios, The Cause, Tottenham, London......psyched out rock, funk, jazz & folk.
Music from Alchemist, Greg Foat, Drumetrix, The Vanishing Twin, Kutiman, Baris Manco, Lifted, Fire! Orchestra, Laurence Pike, Marnie Webber, Lee Perry, Al Dobson JR, Living Music, Erica Pomerantz, Jeremy Steig, Ike Turner, The Waitresses, The Soul Destroyers, The Forthcoming, khruangbin........

Shaped By What We Love - Threads Radio - June 2019

Functional systems may be innate—that is, reflecting the experience of the species, and acquired, resulting from individual experience. But in both cases, tens and hundreds of millions of cells from different parts of the brain and the whole body must correctly assemble into such a system. This process is called systemogenesis, and how such complex integrations arise in evolution, how the body solves this problem in its embryonic development as well as in behavior and learning is described by a special branch of the theory of functional systems—the theory of systemogenesis. It solves the question of how something rational naturally arises from something irrational.

Dancing Qualia

Systemogenesis

Sensory abilities of humans and bats are different. The latter have ultrasonic sonar that helps orientate in space. Let's suppose we learned everything about its nature. But do we know what the bat’s conscious experience is, “what is it like to be a bat?” Intuition tells you no. And this means that even the most ideal materialistic explanation leaves out special facts—the facts of consciousness, "what it is like to be those who we are." It is for this reason that consciousness is so mysterious, it is an abnormal phenomenon for natural science.

What is it Like to Be a Bat

This title refers to apocalyptic ideas about the end of time when the time of humanity expires, and its history ends. But this is not about the Last Judgment and the second advent but about the technogenic end of time. It can be either catastrophic or positive—it can start a new era. Technological singularity is thought to be such a limit, as a result of which artificial superintelligence will appear, the goals of which will be unknown to us, and control over which is impossible. The history of mankind will end as soon as we have to negotiate not with people but with machines, as soon as, perhaps, nothing remains of a biological human. But everything can end earlier and more prosaically—from a nuclear disaster. In this sense, the latter invention has already been completed.

Last Invention

The brain never works with all neurons at the same time. It solves each problem by combining some of its neurons. Such distributed patterns of cells designed for obtaining a specific result for the whole body are called functional systems. Our entire brain resembles a giant Swiss penknife with thousands of such tools. The human mind and intellect are largely determined by the repertoire of its functional systems and the ability of each of them to find the optimal solution to their problem. Functional systems and their properties were discovered in the 30s of the last century by P. K. Anokhin, a student of I. P. Pavlov. He contrasted them with reflexes for which he was accused in 1950 at the famous Pavlovian session of betraying his teacher. The disputes whether the brain works on the principle of reflexes or functional systems are still ongoing.

Last Invention

D-Pulse