Category: Science/philosophy content
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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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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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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.
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Are we too part of a greater collective intelligence? How would we know?
Some musings on the question of whether our origins as a collective intelligence implies that we too could be part of an even greater collective, and how we might know it.
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Q&A from the internet and recent presentations 2
Answers to a few recent questions people have asked me.
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Resources for planarian memory experiments
Some thoughts about planaria for memory experiments, including references to literature on memory transfer and some protocols and manuals.
