{"id":217876,"date":"2025-07-14T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/michael-graziano-rethinking-consciousness-attention-schema-theory-the-science-of-subjectivity"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:05:30","slug":"michael-graziano-rethinking-consciousness-attention-schema-theory-the-science-of-subjectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/michael-graziano-rethinking-consciousness-attention-schema-theory-the-science-of-subjectivity","title":{"rendered":"Michael Graziano: Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory &amp; the Science of Subjectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83ohDfrzHmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist who is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He\u2019s a best-selling author and has written several books including \u201cConsciousness and the Social Brain\u201d, \u201cRe-thinking Consciousness\u201d, \u201cThe Spaces Between Us\u201d, and much more. His scientific research at Graziano Lab focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the \u201cattention schema theory\u201d (AST), an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS:<br \/> 0:00 \u2014 Introduction.<br \/> 2:12 \u2014 Meet Dr Michael Graziano: The Consciousness Theorist.<br \/> 6:44 \u2014 What Is Consciousness? A Deep Dive.<br \/> 11:35 \u2014 The Illusion of Consciousness.<br \/> 15:20 \u2014 Attention Schema Theory.<br \/> 20:05 \u2014 Mystery of Self-Awareness and the \u2018I\u2019<br \/> 25:10 \u2014 The Hard Problem vs. the Meta Problem of Consciousness.<br \/> 30:55 \u2014 Social Awareness &amp; Dehumanization.<br \/> 34:20 \u2014 Effect of Social Media on Human Interaction.<br \/> 38:05 \u2014 Role of Attention in Machine Consciousness.<br \/> 41:55 \u2014 Creating an AI Mind: Step by Step Guide.<br \/> 47:30 \u2014 Exploring the Building Blocks of Artificial Consciousness.<br \/> 51:15 \u2014 AI Self-Perception: Can Machines Be Conscious?<br \/> 56:10 \u2014 Challenging the Magical vs. Scientific View of Consciousness.<br \/> 1:00:40 \u2014 Consciousness: A Choice Between Magic and Science?<br \/> 1:05:12 \u2014 Attention in Machine Learning: A Closer Look.<br \/> 1:10:55 \u2014 The Psychology of Human Perception.<br \/> 1:14:20 \u2014 Social Awareness and the Digital Revolution.<br \/> 1:18:35 \u2014 Conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>EPISODE LINKS:<br \/> Michael\u2019s Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/grazianolab.princeton.edu\/\">https:\/\/grazianolab.princeton.edu\/<\/a><br \/> Michael\u2019s Books: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2eufd62r\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2eufd62r<\/a>.<br \/> TED-ed \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist who is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He\u2019s a best-selling author and has written several books including \u201cConsciousness and the Social Brain\u201d, \u201cRe-thinking Consciousness\u201d, \u201cThe Spaces Between Us\u201d, and much more. His scientific research at Graziano Lab focuses on the brain basis of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}