This is a second conversation with Lisa Barrett ( Karen Quigley ( and Benjamin Lyons ( about Relational Realism, allostasis, and questions of mind/body/behavior.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Rethinking emotion universals

(09:34) Brain evolution and allostasis

(17:25) Predictive processing and signaling

(30:05) Objectivity and first-person science

(38:45) Flexible body-world boundaries

(45:46) Relational meaning in perception

(52:06) Embodiment, morphospace and realism

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This is a 1hr + 23 minutes talk and conversation with Thomas Seyfried, Derek Lee and Tomás Duraj ( Juanita Mathews from my group ( about their work on the metabolic and mitochondrial aspects of cancer.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Metabolic nature of cancer

(08:52) Mitochondrial theory of cancer

(34:00) Metabolic therapy in practice

(40:39) Mitochondria and morphogenetic fields

(45:21) Ion channels and metabolism

(53:01) Bioelectric control and regeneration

(01:09:03) Mouse versus human models

(01:15:19) Mitochondria, aging, and disease

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This is a ~53 minute talk + 14 minute Q&A titled "On Biological and Artificial Consciousness: a case for biological computationalism" by Borjan Milinkovic ( and Jaan Aru (

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Speaker background and research

(03:16) Motivation and philosophical landscape

(09:32) Von Neumann architecture

(15:39) Computational metaphor in neuroscience

(22:52) Metabolic constraints in neurons

(29:04) Heterarchy and scale integration

(33:55) Empirical scale integration findings

(38:00) Hybrid computation in dendrites

(43:16) Field-based neural computation

(47:48) Implications for synthetic consciousness

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This is a ~1 hours 44 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Platonic forms and interaction

(07:01) Xenobots and evolutionary cost

(11:23) Symbiosis, rectifiers, embeddings

(18:06) Free lunches in biology

(27:59) Topology of competency space

(39:53) Exploration, play, affordances

(48:01) Markov blankets and evolution

(57:51) Relational life and observers

(01:04:10) Defining play and plasticity

(01:20:35) Thermodynamics and domesticated play

(01:29:32) Will to live dynamics

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This is a ~54 minute conversation with Darren Iammarino (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YNrxRaYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works) about open problems with respect to the Platonic Space model.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Patterns, minds, and causation

(09:18) Interfaces and positive pressure

(21:50) Randomness and new universals

(31:21) Quantum randomness and scale

(39:16) Cyborg minds and identity

(50:18) Unconventional minds and substrates

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This is a ~57 minute talk titled "The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: development, regeneration, cancer, and beyond" which I gave at a UCSF seminar for an audience of graduate students and post-docs in Biophysics, Bioinformatics, and Chemical Biology. I covered the role of bioelectricity as cognitive glue underlying high-level adaptive plasticity in living tissue, recent progress in exploiting that interface, and new developments in research platforms for this field.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Framing bioelectricity's role

(09:28) Morphogenesis as goal-directed

(22:45) Bioelectric control of form

(35:10) Rewriting anatomical set points

(43:55) Cancer and aging bioelectricity

(49:36) AI, anthrobots, and outlook

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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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