Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges

Paul Baird - A model for perceptual states

Series
Models of Consciousness
Video Embed
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference.
Paul Baird
Université de Bretagne Atlantique

I will present a mathematical model which encapsulates 3D perception from planar 2D data: to a combinatorial graph, we associate its "geometric spectrum"; eigenstates then correspond to local realizations of the graph in Euclidean 3-space as "invariant" frameworks. In this way geometry emerges from the structure, rather than being imposed upon it.

One may attempt to construct a model universe based on such structures, in which state realization enacts change; change being synonymous with time, which at an elementary level, we hypothesize, is the realization of temporal states. A coherent time should then emerge from a "survival of the fittest" principle. Conscious entities might then be considered as systems which possess "higher order universality", that is, which process potential information (rather than hard information) such as a "potential" 3D cube, to enact their own change.

More in this series

View Series
Models of Consciousness

Mauro D’Ariano - Awareness: an operational theoretical approach

One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference.
Previous
Models of Consciousness

Pierre Baudot - Information cohomology and probabilistic topos for consciousness modeling: from elementary perception to machine learning

One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference.
Next
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Episode Information

Series
Models of Consciousness
People
Paul Baird
Keywords
oxford
computer science
consciousness
neuroscience
mathematics
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 13/10/2019
Duration: 00:21:34

Subscribe

Apple Podcast Video Video RSS Feed

Download

Download Video

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
'Oxford Podcasts' Twitter Account @oxfordpodcasts | MediaPub Publishing Portal for Oxford Podcast Contributors | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2022 The University of Oxford