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[Axel] What we're trying to do here, through learning
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The Most Unknown

What we're trying to do here, through learning what thoughts to imagine so that the hand...

[Axel] What we're trying to do here, through learning what thoughts to imagine so that the hand will move, what the distinction is between thinking that and thinking something else where it doesn't move, and so on and so forth

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[Axel] What we're trying to do here, through learning
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what thoughts to imagine
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so that the hand will move,
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what the distinction is between thinking that
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and thinking something else where it doesn't move,
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and so on and so forth.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:58
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
VICE Media

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Movie Summary

The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity's biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousnes
The argument, the crucial argument, - The Most Unknown 00:04
The argument, the crucial argument,
Agency is part of what it means to be conscious. - The Most Unknown 00:04
Agency is part of what it means to be conscious.
Each three seconds, - The Most Unknown 00:06
Each three seconds,
Given that this is a right robotic hand, - The Most Unknown 00:06
Given that this is a right robotic hand,
Do you now feel you have some control over that hand? - The Most Unknown 00:05
Do you now feel you have some control over that hand?
-But there's also... -If I can really focus, - The Most Unknown 00:10
-But there's also... -If I can really focus,
Four of five movements right. - The Most Unknown 00:04
Four of five movements right.
-Yeah. It's fragile. -It's fragile, then I lose it. - The Most Unknown 00:05
-Yeah. It's fragile. -It's fragile, then I lose...
But, so the idea is that it gets less and less fragile, - The Most Unknown 00:05
But, so the idea is that it gets less and less fragile,
All this effortful thinking - The Most Unknown 00:07
All this effortful thinking
It's important in this context to remember that - The Most Unknown 00:06
It's important in this context to remember that
It's different kinds of mechanisms - The Most Unknown 00:10
It's different kinds of mechanisms
If you're an empirically-oriented scientist, - The Most Unknown 00:06
If you're an empirically-oriented scientist,
So, the challenge is to figure out - The Most Unknown 00:08
So, the challenge is to figure out
All that happens in our mental life, - The Most Unknown 00:08
All that happens in our mental life,
And the brain is this incredibly complex organ - The Most Unknown 00:07
And the brain is this incredibly complex organ
Each neuron has a connection with about - The Most Unknown 00:06
Each neuron has a connection with about
How do you design experiments - The Most Unknown 00:08
How do you design experiments
You are trying to solve this problem, like, - The Most Unknown 00:05
You are trying to solve this problem, like,
I think this laboratory - The Most Unknown 00:05
I think this laboratory