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BI 109 Mark Bickhard: Interactivism
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Mark and I discuss a wide range of topics surrounding his Interactivism framework for explaining cognition. Interactivism stems from Mark’s account of representations and how what we represent in our minds is related to the external world — a challenge that has plagued the mind-body problem since the beginning. Basically, representations are anticipated interactions with the world, that can be true (if enacting one helps an organism maintain its thermodynamic relation with the world) or false (if it doesn’t). And representations are functional, in that they function to maintain far from equilibrium thermodynamics for the organism for self-maintenance. Over the years, Mark has filled out Interactivism, starting with a process metaphysics foundation and building from there to account for representations, how our brains might implement representations, and why AI is hindered by our modern \.
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00:00 Intro.
Panel on Representational Paradigms for Cognitive AI
There is a wide gap between current machine learning representations and the way in which our minds represent reality. Our mental representations are dynamic, coherent, unified (in the sense that we establish relationships between all our domains of knowledge, in the context of a global universe), and they are updated on the fly. In this panel, we bring some important thinkers and practitioners of cognitive science, robotics, AI and philosophy together to discuss representations for future generations of AI systems.
This is the first in a series of events on Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. The goal of Cognitive AI is to build and understand systems that can make sense of their environment, combine knowledge and perception, learn to act on domains they have not encountered before, make autonomous decisions and explain them, interact deeply with people and human society.
We are proud to welcome our panelists:
Mark Bickhard: Cognition and Truth Value.
Stephen grossberg: how each brain makes a mind: from brain resonances to conscious experiences.
Yulia Sandamirskaya: Memory, intentionality, and autonomy enabled by neuronal attractor dynamics.
The Learnable Universe
Treating AI as a philosophical project by Joscha Bach.
Why do we find ourselves in a universe that has learnable properties? How is it possible for a symbol to mean something? What is the relationship between observation, perception and knowledge? What is agency? What constitutes a self model?
When we approach Artificial Intelligence as a philosophical project, we gain a fascinating and useful perspective on age-old questions of philosophy.
This short presentation will touch on some of these questions and aims to open up a broader space for discussion.
Our speaker, Joscha Bach, PhD, is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher specializing in computational models of cognition and neuro-symbolic AI.
He has taught and worked in AI research at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, the MIT Media Lab, the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
My Video Tour of Alcor and Interview with CEO Max More
What counts as death? And who gets to decide?
In the summer of 2013, I traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona to visit the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organization, founded in 1972. CEO Dr. Max More gave me a full tour of the facilities and walked me through the entire process: from the moment clinical death is declared, through controlled cooling and vitrification, to the cryo-tanks holding (at the time) 117 patients in long-term storage.
I also asked him, somewhat selfishly, whether my big bald head would fit comfortably in a neuro-patient container.
After the tour, Max sat down with me for a 25-minute conversation that covered:
Affordability and the real cost of membership Why minimizing cooling delays after clinical death is critical, and what long-distance members do about it Preserving pets, because of course people ask Chemical brain preservation as an alternative path The importance of protecting the neuron’s microtubules The case for an X Prize style competition to reduce tissue damage Where cryonics sits inside the broader transhumanist project.
My favorite line from Max, the one I still come back to:
FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Warns AI Could Replace Human Jobs “At Very Large Scale” | AI1G
Anthropic Co-Founder Chris Olah warned that artificial intelligence could displace human labor “at very large scale” as he addressed the Vatican during the presentation of Pope Leo’s first encyclical on AI. The Anthropic co-founder urged stronger oversight from governments, religious leaders, and civil society, while raising concerns about AI’s growing power, global inequality, and mysterious internal behaviors observed in advanced systems.
Anthropic Co-Founder Warns AI Could Replace Human Jobs “At Very Large Scale”
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