A Conversation with Alison Hanson on Cognitive Science and Her Trajectory in Neurobiology
This is a 1-hour conversation with Ali Hanson (https://braininitiative.nih.gov/ali-hanson-md-phd) on her path in science, including a ~45 minute presentation of her data in Hydra. This is the first of...
21 Apr 202457min
What Can Worms and Frogs Teach Us About Collective Intelligence?
This is a talk I gave at a large tech company for non-specialists interested in the intersection of computation, biology, and fundamental questions about Selfhood. It's about 48 minutes long and unfor...
10 Apr 202448min
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Richard Nuccitelli, a Great Figure in Developmental Bioelectricity
This is the first of several interviews we will do with significant people in the history of developmental bioelectricity. Richard Nuccitelli is a legend, having invented (with Lionel Jaffe, in 1974) ...
3 Apr 20241h 3min
Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
This is a ~1.5 hour discussion between cognitive scientist Don Hoffman (https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/HoffmanPubs.html) and evolutionary biologist/computer scientist Richard Watson (https://www...
28 Mar 20241h 23min
A Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin
This is a ~1 hour 20 minute working meeting conversation between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and myself; we touch on topics of mind, Selfhood, Platonic spaces, and other ways in w...
16 Mar 20241h 21min
Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis
This is about a ~45 minute talk by me, focusing specifically on parallels between morphogenesis and cognitive/behavioral science (given to a neuroscience audience). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Webs...
15 Mar 202448min
Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
This is a 30 minute talk on Hopfield networks solving propositional satisfiability problems, by N. Weber, W. Koch, O. Erdem, and T. Froese (from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japa...
5 Mar 202449min
Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, Meeting
This is a ~1 hour working meeting between Timothy Jackson (https://theconversation.com/profiles/timothy-n-w-jackson-115702) and myself, discussing our collaboration on how evolutionary and clinical to...
24 Feb 202452min
