<video><title>The Observing Universe: Evolution of Cognition</title><description>Join Sebastian Schepis in a daring and radical explorarion of the nature of observation - how it works, and how we can model it. Come with us on an exploration of entropy, energy, time, embodiment, consciousness, and much more.</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:05,680">Our comprehension of mind and observation has transformed remarkably throughout history.</line><line from="00:00:05,680" to="00:00:11,920">Ancient philosophies viewed consciousness as an ethereal soul separate from physical matter.</line><line from="00:00:11,920" to="00:00:19,520">Plato's realm of ideal forms inspires this perspective of mind as a fundamental transcendent essence.</line><line from="00:00:19,520" to="00:00:25,200">Later, empiricist thinkers like Locke conceived mind as a physical process rooted in sensing</line><line from="00:00:25,280" to="00:00:31,920">impressions. Mind became inscribed upon the blank slate of the material brain. This view located</line><line from="00:00:31,920" to="00:00:39,120">cognition within biology. Cognitive psychology further developed this materialist perspective.</line><line from="00:00:40,240" to="00:00:46,800">Models of the mind as an information processor took hold, equating thought to computations in the brain,</line><line from="00:00:47,360" to="00:00:53,920">hardware executing mental software. Cognitive science aimed to unravel mind's computational rules</line><line from="00:00:53,920" to="00:00:59,920">through neural network modeling and AI techniques. Consciousness became an engineering challenge.</line><line from="00:00:59,920" to="00:01:06,400">Crack the code and machines can replicate our inner worlds. However, quantum revelations challenged</line><line from="00:01:06,400" to="00:01:12,960">this computational narrative. Observer effects illustrate mind's active role in reality's construction</line><line from="00:01:12,960" to="00:01:18,720">rather than passive mapping of external states. Quantum cognition integrates these insights.</line><line from="00:01:19,360" to="00:01:25,360">If observation chooses from probability waves, perhaps internal coherence also arises from quantum</line><line from="00:01:25,360" to="00:01:31,040">dynamics. Reality may not be mechanically computed but co-created through participation.</line><line from="00:01:32,080" to="00:01:39,120">This expands the observer's significance. No detached spectator, but an engaged creative contributor,</line><line from="00:01:39,120" to="00:01:44,960">colluding with matters possibilities to shape the merger worlds. Reality ceases to pre-exist</line><line from="00:01:44,960" to="00:01:50,320">observation. Now intricately entangled with minds generative acts. We're next.</line><line from="00:01:51,120" to="00:01:57,280">Possibilities abound. A participatory cosmos. Nature and welled by interiority.</line><line from="00:01:57,280" to="00:02:03,120">Consciousness permeating existence. Our journey has merely circled back to intuitions ancient</line><line from="00:02:03,120" to="00:02:09,600">sears expressed. Now clothe in the garb of modern physics. Yet ready-made answers eluda still.</line><line from="00:02:10,160" to="00:02:17,840">However the voyage unfolds, it promises wonders tempered by challenges. For comprehending mind requires</line><line from="00:02:17,840" to="00:02:24,400">transcending ourselves and therein lies the deepest mystery. In this quest of questions,</line><line from="00:02:24,400" to="00:02:30,720">our answers must become living portals for widening reality beyond imagination's fertile edge.</line><line from="00:02:31,440" to="00:02:36,560">The ultimate observer remains undiscovered even as it dreams these words.</line></transcript></transcript></video>