Tag: brain

March 16th, 2017

Disentangling human projection from artificial intelligence

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In a previous video, I talked about how our senses aren’t passively received from the world, but are actively constructed and projected into the world. The world is like a coloring book that we color in with each of our senses, every moment that we’re awake. Now what about our emotions? They’re no less […]

November 1st, 2016

What makes our senses different from each other?

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What makes a sight a sight, and not a sound? What makes a sound a sound, and not a smell? We don’t have a simple answer. But there are some tools we can use, like analysis and synthesis, that can help us at least think about these questions better.

Let’s take analysis first, where […]

August 10th, 2016

Where do our senses happen?

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I think it’s fascinating how the brain computes precisely where we should experience each and every sensation that we have. When we open our eyes, everything we see — brightness, color, shapes, depth, motion — all these things are the the result of real-time computation. We don’t receive these qualities from the world, we […]

Kartik Subbarao

Disentangling human projection from artificial intelligence

What makes our senses different from each other?

Where do our senses happen?

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