# Sat. June 11, 2022 Mark Solms, "Consciousness as Precision Optimization: Some Physiological and Philosophical Considerations"

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You’re invited… Sat. June 11, 2022 Mark Solms, “Consciousness as Precision Optimization: Some Physiological and Philosophical Considerations”  
3 to 5 PM London time (10 AM New York, 4 PM Cape Town, 10 PM China/Singapore)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c0_Vf5_qiWk/hqdefault.jpg "ActInf GuestStream #016.2 ~ Mark Solms "Consciousness as Precision Optimization"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_Vf5_qiWk)

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Part 1: [ActInfLab GuestStream #016.1 ~ Mark Solms "Consciousness as Precision Optimization" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfGuwoCXI8)

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/sat-june-11-2022-mark-solms-consciousness-as-precision-optimization-some-physiological-and-philosophical-considerations/9821/3 "2022-06-11T01:34:47Z")

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> **[\[PDF\] How and why consciousness arises: Some considerations from physics and...](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-and-why-consciousness-arises%3A-Some-from-physics-Solms-Friston/ca702e84a894616750748cd7f8ab5b44bf298af7)**
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> We offer a scientific approach to the philosophical ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, as formulated by David Chalmers in this journal. Our treatment is based upon two recent insights concerning (1) the endogenous nature of consciousness and (2) the...