This is a ~1 hour 40 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/)

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Math, identity and realms

(16:08) Convergence, abstraction and attractors

(34:05) Attractors, stress and observers

(41:29) Realms, impossibility and simulation

(51:40) Simulation, explanation and understanding

(01:04:39) Mind everywhere and agency

(01:19:19) Content, communication and creativity

(01:30:42) Boundaries, scale and space

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This is a ~1 hour conversation with (including a short talk by) Mijail Serruya (https://research.jefferson.edu/labs/researcher/serruya-research.html), Alessandro Napoli (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-napoli-8383a164/), and Wes Clawson (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/wesley-clawson-staff-scientist/). We talk about brain-body-machine interfaces, the clinical aspects and the deeper conceptual connections.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Introductions and BCI vision

(16:32) Platypus-inspired brain augmentation

(24:28) Plasticity, aging, and models

(39:37) Self-organizing neural interfaces

(49:58) Hypnosis, regeneration, and BCIs

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Blog: https://thoughtforms.life

The Levin Lab: https://drmichaellevin.org

This is a discussion with with Lisa Feldman Barrett (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WF5c0_8AAAAJ&hl=en), Benjamin Lyons (https://interestingessays.substack.com/), Eli Sennesh (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3z4ALYgAAAAJ), Jordan Theriault-Brown (http://www.jordan-theriault.com/), and Karen Quigley (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aZ3qhVUAAAAJ&hl=en) about topics related to allostasis and top-down control across cognitive science and developmental biology.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Framing interdisciplinary synthesis

(03:18) Bioelectric collective intelligence

(16:00) Constraints versus bioelectric memory

(20:06) Neurodevelopment and allostasis

(27:10) Plasticity and dirty genomes

(35:59) Relational structure and constraints

(40:24) Agency across biological scales

(45:04) Goal-like molecular networks

(48:49) Allostasis and control hierarchies

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Blog: https://thoughtforms.life

The Levin Lab: https://drmichaellevin.org