Category: Science/philosophy content
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Some thoughts on memory, goals, and universal hacking
A transcript on some thoughts on memory, goals, universal hacking, and the evolution of agents.
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On biology and computation: a dialogue between Chris Fields and Tyler Clark
A dialog between Chris Fields, Tyler Clark, me, and Karl Friston on the topic of life and computation.
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A talk given to an undergraduate bioengineering and regenerative medicine class
This is a talk for an undergraduate class on regenerative medicine in Tufts’ Biomedical Engineering department, including transcript of the Q&A at the end.
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A talk given at our Center by Naama Brenner on exploratory learning in transcriptional networks
A talk by Naama Brenner on exploratory learning in gene networks, and a list of papers on related topics.
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Some links between brain and body: connections between behavioral (3D) and anatomical spaces
Some thoughts on control in behavioral, anatomical, and other spaces.
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Life after Death: in another world, at another scale
Thoughts on the implications of multiscale competency architecture of living organisms for the concept of death and specifically recent data on the thanatotranscriptome.
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Trophic memory, deer, and a truly unique scientific object
Trophic memory in deer antlers: a remarkable phenomenon showing how the morphogenetic collective intelligence learns from experience. In this post I talk about George Bubenik, who discovered this phenomenon, and our modern work on studying it in planaria.
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What groups of embryos know: toward a hyper-developmental biology
This is an explanation of a new paper on how embryos help each other develop and what it means.
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What do algorithms want? A new paper on the emergence of surprising behavior in the most unexpected places
Our latest preprint shows some unexpected competencies and behavior in simple sorting algorithms, with implications about unconventional and minimal substrates for basal cognition.
