Go to http://ow.ly/4nK830rrtFY to check out The Great Courses Plus and start your free trial! Addendum to what I say at 5 mins 18 seconds: Tegmark's claim about the decoherence time has been disputed by Hameroff et al https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061901 Please support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sabine In this video I talk about a few approaches to mathematically describe consciousness and their shortcomings. I also briefly talk about what such studies could one day be good for. You can watch the talks from the workshop that I mention (and many more!!) here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWgIDgfzRDp-PmQvMsYiNlg #Science #Mathematics #Consciousness 0:00 Intro 0:48 Integrated Information Theory 4:02 The Penrose-Hameroff microtubules conjecture 5:19 Palmer's Quantum Creativity 6:26 Erra's Optimal Synchronization 7:23 Mason's Information Maximization 8:52 What is it good for? 9:39 Sponsor Message