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  • Against Mind-Blindness

    Against Mind-Blindness
    Jun 16 2025

    This is a new ~1 hour talk by me on the concept of diverse intelligence, and morphogenesis as a model system with which to practice identifying and communicating with unconventional minds. This is a bit different than previous ones because I explicitly go over examples of how some of our various data on bioelectrics addresses each of several key properties of cellular collectives as *cognitive agents* navigating anatomical morphospace.

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    57 m
  • How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine

    How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine
    Apr 11 2025
    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.

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    1 h
  • Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional Intelligence

    Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional Intelligence
    Jan 18 2025
    This is a ~1 hr10min talk I gave at a conference on modeling aspects of neuroscience. The talk is about the inverse idea - how tools and concepts from neuroscience apply far beyond neurons and brains, and can help understand a lot of biology across development, evolution, and diverse intelligence. I talked about what the symmetry between cognitive science and the study of morphogenesis means for biomedicine and for some questions in behavioral/cognitive science.

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    1 h y 8 m
  • Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences

    Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences
    May 15 2025

    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 Blindness
    (02:50) Recognizing Diverse Minds
    (05:00) Embodied Agent Origins
    (08:40) Anatomical Intelligence Spaces
    (12:40) Bioelectricity: Body's Glue
    (15:50) Communicating Cell Intelligence
    (22:30) Patterns Beyond Physics
    (25:00) Anthrobots: Novel Life Forms
    (27:30) Future Beings, Pattern Space
    (32:30) Conclusion and Thanks


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    36 m
  • Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond

    Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond
    May 11 2025

    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 Worldviews
    (01:40) Life as Continua
    (03:00) Electromagnetic Spectrum Analogy
    (04:30) Spectrum of Mind Applications
    (05:50) Single Cell to Mind
    (07:10) Agential Material: Cell Competency
    (08:00) Intelligence Below Cells
    (09:00) Multiscale Competency Architecture
    (10:00) Anatomical Alignment Problem
    (12:30) Bioelectricity: Cognitive Glue
    (13:30) Scaling Goals: Light Cone
    (14:30) Salamander Regeneration Example
    (15:30) Tadpole Eye on Tail
    (17:00) Bioelectrical Interface Methods
    (18:00) Rewriting Body Memory
    (19:00) Frog Limb Regeneration
    (20:30) Plasticity: Novel Organisms
    (21:30) Anthrobots from Human Cells
    (23:00) Future of Viable Agents
    (24:00) Synthbiosis: Recognizing Minds
    (25:00) Credits and Thanks


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    24 m
  • Ethics and the New Biology

    Ethics and the New Biology
    Apr 26 2025

    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
    (13:40) Communicating With Cellular Intelligence
    (20:00) Freedom of Embodiment
    (27:40) Ethics of Future Beings


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    33 m
  • Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective

    Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective
    Mar 13 2025
    This is a very fast (~33min) flyover of some ideas relevant to the relationship between biology, computation, cognition, consciousness, and related subjects. This was given at the amazing Progress and Visions in Consciousness Science series (https://amcs-community.org/events/progress-visions-series/) as the prologue to a discussion.

    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00) Talk Overview and Structure
    (01:30) Expanding Our View of Mind
    (04:30) Biology's Multi-Scale Architecture
    (09:00) Bioelectricity: Ancient Cognitive Glue
    (14:00) Biology Solves Novel Problems
    (22:00) Creative Interpretation, Intelligence Ratchet
    (29:30) Novel Goals, Platonic Space
    (36:00) Conclusion and Future Research

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    33 m
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