Category: Science/philosophy content
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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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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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Learning to Be: how learning strengthens the emergent nature of collective intelligence in a minimal agent
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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Resources on interactionist models of the mind-brain relation
This is a set of references to hard-to-find papers on the physics of mind-brain interaction.
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Diverse intelligence in plants and beyond: a talk and some downloadable resources
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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What would you find more disturbing and why:
Four scenarios for an unexpected message found encoded in the world; which is most disruptive and why?