Tag: science
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Platonism, Process Philosophy, and more: Tim Jackson and Robert Prentner
A video discussion and email transcript of a conversation on Platonic space and related philosophical topics by Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson.
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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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A talk on the architecture of life
This is a video and Q&A session from a talk I gave about the architecture of life.
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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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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.