David Chalmers, Symbolic Systems Program 2017 Distinguished Speaker: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/698/69825/ -

Re CONSCIOUSNESS and the Stanford "The Virtual and the Real" talk, which I blogged about on Tue, May 30, 2017 -

David Chalmers' TED talk herein - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/wandering-albatross-talk-on-virtual-and.html - Chalmers points to a breakthrough in understanding the hard problem of consciousness by Giulio Tononi and re Integrated information theory ...

Giulio Tononi's

Integrated information theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

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A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness

Is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-theory-of-consciousness/

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How valid is Giulio Tononi's mathematical formula for consciousness?

https://www.quora.com/How-valid-is-Giulio-Tononis-mathematical-formula-for-consciousness

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... and re

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‏Verified account @Joi

A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation http://news.mit.edu/2017/noninvasive-method-deep-brain-stimulation-0601#.WTCxf22Qh5Y.twitter … from @eboyden3

A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation https://t.co/4U6Ty1WbvY from @eboyden3
— Joi Ito (@Joi) June 2, 2017

https://twitter.com/Joi/status/870437397540065280

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and

Low power, non-invasive tech to stimulate specific locations in the brain. Massive implications in brain science, VR/AR. @eboyden3 @medialab https://t.co/FADlfEAEeT
— Scott W. Greenwald (@scottgwald) June 2, 2017

(both of which I re-tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - on June 2, 2017).

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How to model this best in a 3D virtual world with avatars at the atomic and neuronal levels with species - and for students' help with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as well?