Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences
This is a ~35 minute talk about diverse intelligence and our efforts to establish formalisms and methods for communicating with unconventional biological intelligences. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Expanding Mind...
15 Mai 202535min
Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond
This is a ~20 minute very rapid talk reviewing ideas around the scaling of intelligence in unconventional substrates. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intro & Unconventional Concepts(00:40) Challenging Traditional Wo...
11 Mai 202524min
Culture as an Additional Scale of Biological Organisation with Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng
This is a short summary talk by Ivan Kroupin (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XjxueRYAAAAJ&hl=en) and Tian Chen Zeng (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tian-Chen-Zeng) and then a discussi...
7 Mai 202556min
Ethics and the New Biology
This is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates) about aspects of our work that have implications for ethics. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intelligence All The Way Down(06:30) Scaling Up Cognition(13...
26 Apr 202532min
Conversation with Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky
This is a ~1 hour conversation with Frank Putnam (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KLGgJg4AAAAJ&hl=en) and Alexey Tolchinsky (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tiBKmrsAAAAJ&hl=en) abo...
19 Apr 202556min
Discussion with Michael Johnson
This is a ~50 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and more generally computation and cognition in unconventional substrates...
17 Apr 202550min
How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine
This is a ~1 hour talk on the field of developmental bioelectricity from a perspective of cognitive science and the homology between mechanisms of self-assembly of somatic and brain-based intelligence...
11 Apr 20251h
Uncovering Electrodynamic Design Principles of Living Cells
This is a ~1 hour talk by Jack Tuszynski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tuszy%C5%84ski, https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jackt) on electrical and electromagnetic properties of microtubul...
8 Apr 202555min
