Quotes to think about #5
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Published: March 14, 2025 10:31
Some thoughtful quotes on top of nature images
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Platonic space: where cognitive and morphological patterns come from (besides genetics and environment)
Published: March 9, 2025 11:50
Some excerpts and explanation of a recent paper on causal patterns from the Platonic space and the implications for biology, engineering, and philosophy of mind.
Platonism, Process Philosophy, and more: Tim Jackson and Robert Prentner
https://thoughtforms.life/platonism-process-philosophy-and-more-tim-jackson-and-robert-prentner/
Published: February 15, 2025 11:12
A video discussion and email transcript of a conversation on Platonic space and related philosophical topics by Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson.
Cognitive glue: stress sharing and memory anonymization holding together anatomical intelligence
Published: February 12, 2025 12:29
Explanations of two kinds of cognitive glue - mechanisms that allow subunits (in this case cells) to work together toward larger-scale goals in a collective intelligence, and a discussion of a recent computational modeling paper which tested some of these…
If mind is everywhere, where are all the panpsychiatrists? A (neuro)psychiatry-focussed discussion
Published: February 7, 2025 13:19
A discussion with a clinical psychologist and neuropsychiatrist about collective minds.
Books in progress – update #2
https://thoughtforms.life/books-in-progress-update-2/
Published: February 3, 2025 23:11
My bioelectricity book is finished and submitted to the publisher. This post updates on the progress of forthcoming books.
A talk on the architecture of life
https://thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-the-architecture-of-life/
Published: January 30, 2025 13:13
This is a video and Q&A session from a talk I gave about the architecture of life.
Nature photography #14
https://thoughtforms.life/nature-photography-14/
Published: January 23, 2025 23:43
Some photos of birds, ocean, and other things, mostly at sunrise, some in infrared.
Learning to Be: how learning strengthens the emergent nature of collective intelligence in a minimal agent
Published: January 19, 2025 12:00
A description of our findings in a recent preprint on effects of training on causal emergence in a model of gene-regulatory networks
Nature photography #13
https://thoughtforms.life/nature-photography-13/
Published: January 16, 2025 15:17
Some photos of animals, light, water, and plant galls.