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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On the recognition of unconventional intelligences, and the continuum between thoughts and thinkers. There are many parameters along which intelligences may be unfamiliar and hard to recognize: material, origin story, scales of size and time. Here I focus on one especially interesting, and so far unbreachable, parameter: the apparent distinction between persistent patterns in a…
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This is a continuation of my post on the unexpected side-quests undertaken by simple algorithms.
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Flora and Fauna, mostly at the ocean shore.
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images generated by Midjourney
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Some recorded talks, audio Q&A, links, and discussion text on topics of computation, basal cognition, and reality: Joe Dumit, Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, Alexander Ororbia, and Don Hoffman.
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Downloadable PDF versions of slides from 4 recent talks.
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Macrophotography of insects and plants, and some landscapes in Infrared.
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Links to some useful custom software.
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Announcement of a Q&A/AMA event for charity.
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A few videos of talks I’ve in 2023 and 2024 on topics of biomedicine and diverse intelligence.