Tag: philosophy
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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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Olfaction and cognition: a conversation with Ann-Sophie Barwich and Matt Rodriguez
A conversation and some follow-up links on the neurophilosophy of olfaction and the life/machine spectrum.
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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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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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Ali Hanson: studying the baseline thoughts of Hydra and beyond
A discussion with, and a presentation by, Ali Hanson on the neuroscience of Hydra.
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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…
