Neuroscience

Consciousness

• T. Parr, G. Pezzulo, K. Friston: Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2022). Andrei’s notes.
• Anil Seth: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (2021)
• Andy Clark: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, review
• Giulio Tononi: Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul (2012)
  • pyphi python module
  • Integrated information theory: From consciousness to its physical substrate (2016)
• A. Safron: An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness, Frontiers. Good references, lacks rigor.

• J.E. Cooke: What Is Consciousness? Integrated Information vs. Inference (2021)

• G.M.Edelman, G. Tononi: A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
• Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (2014)
• Seek Yoshua Bengio’s lectures on Consciousness and ML

Articles

• Dendritic Computation, M.London and M. Hausser (2005)

• Karl Friston
  • MLDawn: Active inference explained with Prof. Karl Friston (2021)
  • Sean Carroll: Mindscape 87: Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy (2020)
  • K. Friston: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (2010)
  • EISM: Karl Friston, Markov Blankets, and String Theory (2022)
  • DaCosta, Friston et al: Reward Maximisation through Discrete Active Inference (2022)
  • Brain Ponderings with Mark Mattson: Pondering How the Brain Processes Information with Karl Friston (2022)
  • M. Bitbola and S. Gallagher: The free energy principle and autopoiesis: Comment on “Answering Schrödinger’s question: A free-energy formulation”, Physics of Life Reviews 2018
  • Same circle of ideas: H. Haken, J. Portugali: Information and Self-Organization II: Steady State and Phase Transition (2021)
• Simons Institute:
  • Larissa Albantakis: Consciousness and Autonomy within the Causal Framework of Integrated Information Theory (2018)
  • Peggy Seriès: Bayesian Theories of Perception and Cognition (2018)
  • Carlo Rovelli: Understanding consciousness within the known laws of physics (2018)
• MCS Lectures
  • Nihat Ay: Integrated Information, Embodied Intelligence, and (Philosophical) Zombies (2021)
  • S. Wolfram: How Features of Our Consciousness Seem to Define Our Laws of Physics and Maths (2022)

Relation to Quantum Physics

• Kelvin McQueen: Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function (2020)

Courses

• Simons Institute: The Brain and Computation Boot Camp (2018)

Other

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Computation Theory
• Language Models
• Meta Learning
• MLOps
• Probabilities and Statistics
• Robotics
• Self Driving Cars
• Computational Topology