This is a ~35 minute talk about diverse intelligence and our efforts to establish formalisms and methods for communicating with unconventional biological intelligences.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Expanding Mind Blindness
(02:50) Recognizing Diverse Minds
(05:00) Embodied Agent Origins
(08:40) Anatomical Intelligence Spaces
(12:40) Bioelectricity: Body's Glue
(15:50) Communicating Cell Intelligence
(22:30) Patterns Beyond Physics
(25:00) Anthrobots: Novel Life Forms
(27:30) Future Beings, Pattern Space
(32:30) Conclusion and Thanks

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This is a ~20 minute very rapid talk reviewing ideas around the scaling of intelligence in unconventional substrates.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro & Unconventional Concepts
(00:40) Challenging Traditional Worldviews
(01:40) Life as Continua
(03:00) Electromagnetic Spectrum Analogy
(04:30) Spectrum of Mind Applications
(05:50) Single Cell to Mind
(07:10) Agential Material: Cell Competency
(08:00) Intelligence Below Cells
(09:00) Multiscale Competency Architecture
(10:00) Anatomical Alignment Problem
(12:30) Bioelectricity: Cognitive Glue
(13:30) Scaling Goals: Light Cone
(14:30) Salamander Regeneration Example
(15:30) Tadpole Eye on Tail
(17:00) Bioelectrical Interface Methods
(18:00) Rewriting Body Memory
(19:00) Frog Limb Regeneration
(20:30) Plasticity: Novel Organisms
(21:30) Anthrobots from Human Cells
(23:00) Future of Viable Agents
(24:00) Synthbiosis: Recognizing Minds
(25:00) Credits and Thanks

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This is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates) about aspects of our work that have implications for ethics.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intelligence All The Way Down
(06:30) Scaling Up Cognition
(13:40) Communicating With Cellular Intelligence
(20:00) Freedom of Embodiment
(27:40) Ethics of Future Beings

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