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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Images made by modifying photos or diagrams with the Deep Dream method.
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This is a 1 hour talk on bioelectricity with a special slant toward microbiology/immunology/parasitology, both the video and the Q&A afterward.
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Covers which our papers contributed to various journals in which they were published.
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A humorous dialog (written by GPT-4 and I) about how a determinist (doesn’t believe in free will because of the closure of physics and chemistry) would fare at a job interview in a software company.
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A video and discussion of where memory is stored when networks are trained without changes in structure. Implications for memory and basal cognition, and the difference between 1st and 3rd person access to a memory medium.
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A downloadable BibTex export of my Endnote library (23,700 references) and a fairly complete list of work on bioelectromagnetics up to about 2010.
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General nature photography I’ve done over the last few years.
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Click an image to see a (possibly truncated) version of the prompt used for each one. Click the image again for a high-resolution version.
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Infrared photography of landscapes.
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Macrophotography (mostly insects).