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Van Bettauer retweeted
Strange New Universes: Proof Assistants and Synthetic Foundations, by Michael Shulman
"[...] allow mathematicians to explore radically new kinds of mathematics using an LLM-powered proof assistant to train their intuitions [...]"
ams.org/journals/bull/2024-6…
This has been a pleasure to build thus far! Lots more to do. Shout out to @andrewwhite01 for his excellent PaperQA project as inspiration.
My dreams came true last week when I found out about a rad new web page designed by #FutureFossils Podcast listener @vanbettauer that allows you to ask MY ENTIRE PODCAST a question and get a cogent, legible short answer synthesized from over 200 episodes! Each response at AskFutureFossils.com includes numerous citations and embedded streaming clips from the most relevant moments of the show:
Pretty much the same four books for me! I took a course with @evantthompson at UBC and down the rabbit hole I went...
Which books have had a foundational influence on your thinking? 4 for me are:
• F Varela, @evantthompson, E Rosch, The embodied mind
• Gregory Bateson, Steps to an ecology of mind
• Lev Vygotsky, Mind in society
• Hideo Kawamoto, Autopoiesis 2001 (in Japanese)
Van Bettauer retweeted
(1/2) ZX-calculus is now being used within the fundamentals of Quantum Machine Learning, namely for analysing the barren plateau phenomenon in training quantum neural networks, including identification of cases where they don't occur.
arxiv.org/abs/2102.01828
Van Bettauer retweeted
Mindscape 132 | Michael Levin @drmichaellevin on Growth, Form, Information and the Self. #MindscapePodcast
preposterousuniverse.com/pod…
More videos to come!
A GAN meditating on Candida albicans morphology; smooth transitions from nothing to being. @vanbettauer @RahaOmran @SamiraMassahi @MalcolmWhiteway youtu.be/pWhfY7_PLZU
Check it out!
No Barbados workshop this year, so we released our pilot study of the Barbadian coral reef microbiome instead. 2 sites to start: Bellairs & Maycocks. @ShawnSimp246 @vanbettauer UWI Cave Hill, @BellairsResear1 @corallBarbados #barbados biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🇧🇧🌴🦠🏄♀️🏖️🇧🇧
Exciting work!
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Van Bettauer retweeted
Incoming ENSO Seminar! @JBruineberg will be presenting on "The World at Our Fingertips: Embodied Cognition and the Attention Crisis" next Thurs, 3rd Dec @ 10.00UTC.
Get off twitter and come and join us! #enaction #embodied #cognition
Details at ensoseminars.com/
"Metaphorically, we suggest that meditation prunes the counterfactual tree."
I’m absolutely thrilled to share our unifying predictive processing theory of meditation! A long time in the works.
We tackle 3 styles of meditation, plasticity, insight (Vipassanā), non-duality, selfless & negative experiences, psychedelics & more! psyarxiv.com/5sw6m
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I'm so, so happy to share our new paper on consciousness. "Deep neurophenomenology: An active inference account of some features of conscious experience and of their disturbance in major depressive disorder" with @wawiese, Mark Miller, and Karl Friston
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/183… 1/4
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What a brilliant and insightful person, and a profound inspiration to me and many others. We'll miss you, Bill, but we're glad you made it home to the Pleiades.
(Was this his last interview? A powerful retrospective in his life and work:
shows.acast.com/futurefossil…) – at Santa Fe, NM
Set and setting strike again!
Preprint time: “Effects of external stimulation on psychedelic state neurodynamics”
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
About how the setting can modulate not only subjective reports, but the very brain dynamics during a psychedelic experience.
Van Bettauer retweeted
Want to air your academic grievances with GPT-3? Our call for papers for a special issue in “Artificial Speakers” in Minds and Machines is open till Jan 01 2021 bit.ly/2TstwR6 @RosariaTaddeo
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question: how did you determine that it died? If it can be stimulated into activity, is it really dead or just spontaneous behavior circuits have stopped? I don't know this system at all, so maybe it's a silly question but I'm very interested in the actual criteria for death.