Recommended sources:

• The work of Dr. Michael Levin

  • Memory is not exclusively stored in nuerons

    • From reinforcement learning to agency: Frameworks for understanding basal cognition

  • Empirical demonstrations of goals inherent to the most fundamental levels of biology

    • Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells

    • Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process

    • Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind

    • The scaling of goals via homeostasis: an evolutionary simulation, experiment and analysis

    • There’s Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-Scale Machines

• The work of Dr. Jordan Peterson

  • Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

  • Maps of Meaning lecture series

    • Neurophysiologically of symbolic representation

  • Personality lecture series

    • Jean Piaget and Constructivism

    • Introduction to Personality traits and psychometrics

    • Biology and traits: the limbic system

    • Biology and traits: incentive rewards and nueroticism

    • Biology and traits: agreeableness

    • Biology and traits: openness, intelligence, and creativity

    • Biology and traits: openness, intelligence, and creativity II

    • Biology and traits: orderliness, disgust, and conscientiousness

    • Biology and traits: performance prediction

• The work of Dr. Iain McGilchrist

  • The Master and his Emissary

    • Dr. Iain McGilchrist explains The Master and his Emissary

  • The Matter with Things

    • Dr. Iain McGilchrist explains The Matter with Things

• The evolutionary perspective of Dr. Robert Sapolsky

  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst

    • Dr. Robert Sapolsky explains The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst

  • Dr. Robert Sapolsky Lecture Series: Human Behavioral Psychology

• Consciousness writ large

  • Human and Animal Minds by Peter Carruthers

  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

• The role of perception in consciousness

  • Time consciousness: The missing link in theories of consciousness. (apa.org)

• Mechanistic conceptualizations of consciousness

  • The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs

  • Learning to Be Conscious

  • Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring

  • Cerebral hemisphere regulation of motivated behavior

  • Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex

• Dimensionalized consciousness

  • Dimensions of animal consciousness