Category: Science/philosophy content
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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?
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Who’s the data? Implications of thoughts-are-thinkers continuum for developmental bioelectricity
Combining two ideas: patterns as agents and bioelectric information in morphogenesis, to think about new ways to use polycomputing to better undrstand and control biological emdia.
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An organicist talks about AI (not really about AI at all), and fear
A discussion of responses to my mind-everywhere views and my opinions on what is driving it.
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Language models tackle organizing definitions of life
Analyzing scientists’ definitions of “life” by language models.
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SUTI: the Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence
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…
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Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems
This is a continuation of my post on the unexpected side-quests undertaken by simple algorithms.
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A few talks, discussions, links, and Q&A’s:
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.
