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 talk by Naama Brenner on exploratory learning in gene networks, and a list of papers on related topics.
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Some photos from New Zealand, circa 2015
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Some thoughts on control in behavioral, anatomical, and other spaces.
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An update on my book-writing progress and some thoughts about the future of book-writing.
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Thoughts on the implications of multiscale competency architecture of living organisms for the concept of death and specifically recent data on the thanatotranscriptome.
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A funny story about my court appearance in which I learned that many people do not know that we humans come from an egg.
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Trophic memory in deer antlers: a remarkable phenomenon showing how the morphogenetic collective intelligence learns from experience. In this post I talk about George Bubenik, who discovered this phenomenon, and our modern work on studying it in planaria.
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This is an explanation of a new paper on how embryos help each other develop and what it means.
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Some links to on-line material I find especially interesting.