Thoughtforms Life

This is a ~54 minute talk titled "Diverse Intelligence: a new frontier for Origins, Possibilities, and Diseases of the Mind(s)" which I gave for an audience composed of mental health professionals and neuroscientists.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Roadmap and stakes

(04:13) Minds as continuum

(08:04) Diverse intelligence framework

(11:12) Biological plasticity examples

(18:18) Morphogenesis as intelligence

(22:31) Multiscale cellular agency

(26:39) Anatomical problem solving

(32:40) Ancient bioelectric networks

(35:34) Communicating somatic goals

(42:02) Cancer and medicine

(46:37) Novel living agents

(51:56) Ethics and summary

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This is a ~57 minute talk titled "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs: the mitochondrial daily energy expenditure MDEE study" by Martin Picard (https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/profile/martin-picard-phd) and a brief set of ideas by me at the end, presaging a full discussion of this for our next meeting.

I mentioned these 2 papers:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264722001435

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.201900245

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Mitochondria energy tradeoffs

(52:14) Scarcity coordinates biology

(54:44) Anthrobot aging evidence

(56:31) Follow-up ideas

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This is ~23 minute talk overviewing our recent results and the way we think about aging and longevity. It was for a conference with quite short speaking slots so I had to talk fast... Longer talk coming with more data but this outlines some ideas and overviews our published recent work on aging.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Aging framework overview

(01:16) Bodies as setpoints

(03:08) Anatomical homeostasis examples

(06:40) Bioelectric pattern memory

(08:41) Rewriting biological setpoints

(12:31) Aging bioelectric fuzziness

(14:18) Sharpening brain patterns

(17:34) Cognitive aging hypothesis

(19:42) Atavistic tissue dissociation

(22:21) Species longevity questions

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Discussion #2 (57 minutes on computationalism and consciousness) with Borjan Milinkovic (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AwaZbzsAAAAJ&hl=en), Jaan Aru (https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FvFOzS8AAAAJ&hl=en%29), and Nicolas Rouleau (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=FyOpVTAAAAAJ&hl=en).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) AI consciousness middle ground

(04:46) Substrate dependent minds

(08:07) Analog computer substrates

(13:44) Zombies and digital computers

(18:56) Polycomputing and observers

(25:01) Felt experience defined

(30:08) Action first embodiment

(34:08) Causal emergence and memory

(42:36) Self versus environment

(46:47) Cognitive light cones

(51:44) Boundary gradients and observers

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This is a talk I gave, ~49 minutes long, titled "Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space", to a philosophy audience. It covers some more ways I think about the latent space of patterns that in-forms biology and cognitive science.

CHAPTERS:

(00:02) Research program overview

(05:15) Dissolving old categories

(10:54) Goal-directed morphogenesis basics

(14:11) Rewriting bioelectric patterns

(19:23) Novel embodied abilities

(23:35) Molecular agency ratchet

(27:33) Math and living forms

(33:31) Evolutionary accounting breaks

(41:04) High agency patterns

(47:01) Diverse intelligence future

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