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 discussion with a clinical psychologist and neuropsychiatrist about collective minds.
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My bioelectricity book is finished and submitted to the publisher. This post updates on the progress of forthcoming books.
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This is a video and Q&A session from a talk I gave about the architecture of life.
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Some photos of birds, ocean, and other things, mostly at sunrise, some in infrared.
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A description of our findings in a recent preprint on effects of training on causal emergence in a model of gene-regulatory networks
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Some photos of animals, light, water, and plant galls.
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This is a set of references to hard-to-find papers on the physics of mind-brain interaction.
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Midjourney images from various prompts.
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A talk I gave on diverse intelligence (with downloadable slide content) plus downloadable library of references to papers on plant cognition.
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A conversation and some follow-up links on the neurophilosophy of olfaction and the life/machine spectrum.