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What advice do I give to my students?
A compendium of various pieces of advice I’ve given to students and others who ask about how to think about a life in science.
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A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research at the frontier of life and mind
Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.
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An Act of God, while sending samples to Japan
A short story of my attempts to send precious samples overseas, and insure them. Theological implications thereof.
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Adam named the animals in the Garden of Eden
The old story of Adam naming the animals in the Garden of Eden is a good jumping off point for discussing the true nature of the novel chimeric and artificial beings with whom we will increasingly share our world.
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The struggle of the parts: how competition among organs in the body contributes to morphogenetic robustness
A discussion of how competition between body components leads to improved morphogenesis in plants and animals. In our simulations, evolution consistently chose a strategy of self-imposed limitations of resources, and competition for them among, cells within the body. It favored organisms that pit their parts against each other, generating conflict,…
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A conversation about fields, minds, and the binding problem
A discussion on fields, minds, and the binding problem.
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Some free verse on the topic of Diverse Intelligence
Some free verse inspired by a great poem, from the perspective of my TAME framework and the field of Diverse Intelligence.
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Videos of, and transcripts of Q&A after, a few of my recent talks
A few talks of mine, and text transcripts of the questions and answers in the discussion afterward.
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What if you had an eye on your butt?
Our experiments on transplanting eyes in tadpoles led to some interesting results with implications for understanding evolution and developmental plasticity.
