Philosophy of biology, evolutionary neuroscience, and unconventional computing
Computational Evolution of Sensing and Cognition
Yellow branching slime mold illustration
Physarum as a model for sensing without a brain

Space of possible intelligences: an attempt at a phylogeny of information processes

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information versus understanding

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significant differences between humans and LLMs

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why should evolution favor internal representations?

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How might sensory systems and memory feedback to build each other efficiently?

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Is life computational? Does it have its own kind of computation?

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the multiselectivity feature problem in neuroscience and AI

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What are some methods to characterize different kinds of computation in different systems?

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What makes emergent natural computation categorically different from engineered computation?

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What is Landauer’s limit for biological systems?

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Critical simulation studies

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Noise

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Is information material?

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What is the range of sensory signals evolution has explored—as far as we know?

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How do Hopfield-like network dynamics arise from evolutionary processes?

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Subcellular Hopfield: might Hopfield-like dynamics occur at different scales, and if so, how?

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In terms of energy and information, why are there cognitive tradeoffs between generalization and memory for specific events?

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