Category: Text
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Why the tight clustering of mathematical constants?
A puzzle about the surprisingly tight distribution of mathematical constants.
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Q&A from the internet and recent presentations 1
This is a set of questions posed to me from talks and presentations, emails, and Twitter posts, and my replies.
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A few recent talks and downloadable slides from them #2
Videos of a few recent talks and downloadable slides
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Living things are not machines (also, they totally are)
A brief introduction and an original draft of my piece on life vs. machines.
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Platonic space: where cognitive and morphological patterns come from (besides genetics and environment)
Some excerpts and explanation of a recent paper on causal patterns from the Platonic space and the implications for biology, engineering, and philosophy of mind.
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Platonism, Process Philosophy, and more: Tim Jackson and Robert Prentner
A video discussion and email transcript of a conversation on Platonic space and related philosophical topics by Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson.
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Cognitive glue: stress sharing and memory anonymization holding together anatomical intelligence
Explanations of two kinds of cognitive glue – mechanisms that allow subunits (in this case cells) to work together toward larger-scale goals in a collective intelligence, and a discussion of a recent computational modeling paper which tested some of these ideas.
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If mind is everywhere, where are all the panpsychiatrists? A (neuro)psychiatry-focussed discussion
A discussion with a clinical psychologist and neuropsychiatrist about collective minds.
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Books in progress – update #2
My bioelectricity book is finished and submitted to the publisher. This post updates on the progress of forthcoming books.
