"Inspiration Across Substrates: free lunches, diverse intelligence and surprise" by Michael Levin
Shownotes
This is a ~52 minute talk on inspiration across substrates and my model of "free lunches" and the Platonic space.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00) The concept of inspiration
(03:47) Defining the free lunch
(08:47) Surprising biological plasticity
(14:33) Causal emergence in networks
(17:05) Competencies of synthetic organisms
(25:37) Computational free lunches
(33:50) Navigating diverse problem spaces
(38:53) The platonic cognitive space
(44:00) Ingressions and active patterns
(50:16) Future of ethical symbiosis
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