Dr. Michael Levin
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A conversation between Andrés Gómez Emilsson, Santosh Manicka, and I:
Further Reading (some papers mentioned during the discussion):
https://qri.org/blog/digital-sentience
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33487109/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1233119/full
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/
“The data is fighting like hell to stay relevant…” So profoundly accurate. I confess, upon awakening today I found myself in the middle of a fight with such data & really had to wrestle with myself not allow it take control of my body to the point of a physical action being taken that would have not only bought that very decoherent & traumatic data back into relevance, would have potentially phase-locked it back into the practicality of my daily life for a number of years.
Thankfully, your email notification for this post happened to interrupt and take my attention away from the noise that data is making, and I have been happily listening & engaging internally with an entirely new intelligential data-stream!
At 51:00 you discuss the challenges of describing certain agentic properties without time. Timeless agency is something I’ve been thinking about in the context of mathematical agency. It’ll be part of what I talk about with your computational group in a couple of weeks.
That’s what the great insight of all Buddhas is. The “amata dhatu” is timeless, unconditioned, it’s beyond agency because there is not action.
This was such a great conversation. Very happy to be able to listen in. Would be enlightening to talk to NDErs about phenomenological timelessness (or rather experiencing multiple time scales simultaneously…which is arguably different from timelessness…still a profoundly different experience of time than we typically experience at any rate). It’s one of the most common features of NDEs and could provide a valuable perspective.
Regarding innate geometric pattern reasoning in the mind, there was a paper just released which describes this:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584141v1.full.pdf
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