Thoughts on the science and philosophy of embodied minds, and the lives that can be; the more personal, broader complement to my laboratory research on the biophysical mechanisms of embodied intelligence.
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Current and Future Content Includes:
- Essays on biology, AI, philosophy, and relevant fiction
- Biographies of people who have had an influence on me
- Transcripts of internal conversations on issues of science and philosophy
- Interviews with remarkable scientists: established stars across fields, and introductions to new young researchers
- Software/code for productivity and/or fun
- AI- and mathematically-generated art
- Favorite links to others’ content
- Notes on messages I try to transmit to my students – from personal advice (coming into, or leaving, the lab) to class materials
- Notifications of new findings from our lab, with explanations for the interested public
- Ask-Me-Anything events (Q&A sessions)
- Photography (nature, infrared, and macrophotography)
- Complete list of books in my library and occasional book reviews
- My whole Endnote library of references (curated list of science papers I cite)
- Infographics and other downloadable educational content such as Powerpoint slides
- Personal recommendations for science books, sci-fi, etc.
- What our group is currently working on and how I see the work developing in the future
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A brief breakdown of the public material I make available and what exists at each location.
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Host page for the first Symposium on the Platonic Space
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A set of recent images produced by my prompts with MidJourney, and a short explanation of how I think about this sort of art relative to the spectrum of agency.
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A list of some favorite books.
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My process for writing papers centers around a top-down outline and strict separation of the creative process of story-telling from the mechanics of filling in details.
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A few links to relevant papers, and some artwork and text around questions of AI and biological Selves.
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Many young people are fascinated by the promise of bioelectricity research and email me to ask where they can join a PhD program that focuses on this area. Here is a bit of brief and general advice.
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Overview of my book-writing plans.
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Meet the Anthrobots – a new synthetic morphology creation with implications for biomedicine, biorobotics/bioengineering, and basic evolutionary developmental biology.
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Some photographs of nature (insects mostly), taken with a microscope or macro lenses.
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Here are some links to others’ work I find interesting or useful.