Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
16
Опубликована: Март 24, 2022
Synthetic
biology
and
bioengineering
provide
the
opportunity
to
create
novel
embodied
cognitive
systems
(otherwise
known
as
minds)
in
a
very
wide
variety
of
chimeric
architectures
combining
evolved
designed
material
software.
These
advances
are
disrupting
familiar
concepts
philosophy
mind,
require
new
ways
thinking
about
comparing
truly
diverse
intelligences,
whose
composition
origin
not
like
any
available
natural
model
species.
In
this
Perspective,
I
introduce
TAME-Technological
Approach
Mind
Everywhere-a
framework
for
understanding
manipulating
cognition
unconventional
substrates.
TAME
formalizes
non-binary
(continuous),
empirically-based
approach
strongly
agency.
provides
way
think
animal
sentience
an
instance
collective
intelligence
cell
groups,
arising
from
dynamics
that
manifest
similar
numerous
other
When
applied
regenerating/developmental
systems,
suggests
perspective
on
morphogenesis
example
basal
cognition.
The
deep
symmetry
between
problem-solving
anatomical,
physiological,
transcriptional,
3D
(traditional
behavioral)
spaces
drives
specific
hypotheses
by
which
capacities
can
increase
during
evolution.
An
important
medium
exploited
evolution
joining
active
subunits
into
greater
agents
is
developmental
bioelectricity,
implemented
pre-neural
use
ion
channels
gap
junctions
scale
up
cell-level
feedback
loops
anatomical
homeostasis.
This
architecture
multi-scale
competency
biological
has
implications
plasticity
bodies
minds,
greatly
potentiating
evolvability.
Considering
classical
recent
data
perspectives
computational
science,
evolutionary
biology,
cognition,
reveals
rich
research
program
with
many
regenerative
medicine,
artificial
intelligence.
Язык: Английский
Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
10
Опубликована: Март 28, 2022
The
truly
surprising
thing
about
evolution
is
not
how
it
makes
individuals
better
adapted
to
their
environment,
but
individuals.
All
are
made
of
parts
that
used
be
themselves,
e.g.,
multicellular
organisms
from
unicellular
organisms.
In
such
evolutionary
transitions
in
individuality,
the
organised
structure
relationships
between
component
causes
them
work
together,
creating
a
new
organismic
entity
and
unit
on
which
selection
can
act.
However,
principles
these
remain
poorly
understood.
particular,
process
transition
must
explained
by
“bottom-up”
selection,
i.e.,
existing
lower-level
units,
without
presupposing
higher-level
we
trying
explain.
this
hypothesis
theory
manuscript
address
conditions
for
individuality
exploiting
adaptive
already
known
learning
systems.
Connectionist
models,
well-studied
neural
networks,
demonstrate
networks
functional
components,
sufficient
exhibit
information
integration
collective
action,
produced
via
fully-distributed
unsupervised
principles,
centralised
control
or
an
external
teacher.
Evolutionary
connectionism
translates
distributed
into
domain
natural
suggests
among
units
could
become
adaptively
below
genetic
relatedness
collectives.
manuscript,
connectionist
models
with
particular
interaction
might
explain
individuality.
We
explore
relationship
structures
necessary
(a)
(where
whole
non-decomposable
function
parts),
(b)
development
behaviour
parts)
(c)
non-linearly
separable
functions,
familiar
output
network
inputs).
Specifically,
hypothesise
evolve
level
described
learn
functions
type
(or
deep
model
induction)
cognition
learning.
Язык: Английский
Active inference, morphogenesis, and computational psychiatry
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
16
Опубликована: Ноя. 24, 2022
Active
inference
is
a
leading
theory
in
neuroscience
that
provides
simple
and
neuro-biologically
plausible
account
of
how
action
perception
are
coupled
producing
(Bayes)
optimal
behavior;
has
been
recently
used
to
explain
variety
psychopathological
conditions.
In
parallel,
morphogenesis
described
as
the
behavior
(non-neural)
cellular
collective
intelligence
solving
problems
anatomical
morphospace.
this
article,
we
establish
link
between
domains
cell
biology
neuroscience,
by
analyzing
disorders
(active)
inference.
The
aim
article
three-fold.
We
want
to:
(i)
reveal
connection
active
apparent
conditions;
(ii)
show
can
be
simulated
using
inference;
(iii)
suggest
shed
light
on
developmental
defects
or
aberrant
morphogenetic
processes,
seen
information
processing,
perhaps
suggesting
novel
intervention
repair
strategies.
present
four
simulations
illustrating
application
these
ideas
during
morphogenesis.
Three
same
forms
(e.g.,
deficits
sensory
attenuation
low
precision)
have
conditions
schizophrenia
autism)
also
produce
familiar
development
when
implemented
at
level
group
cells.
fourth
simulation
involves
two
cells
with
too
high
precision,
which
reduction
concentration
signaling
sensitivity
signals
other
treats
defect.
Finally,
results
an
experimental
test
one
model's
predictions
early
Язык: Английский
The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Biological Sciences
Entropy,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
27(3), С. 280 - 280
Опубликована: Март 7, 2025
The
known
laws
of
nature
in
the
physical
sciences
are
well
expressed
language
mathematics,
a
fact
that
caused
Eugene
Wigner
to
wonder
at
“unreasonable
effectiveness”
mathematical
concepts
explain
phenomena.
biological
sciences,
contrast,
have
resisted
formulation
precise
model
complexity
living
world.
limits
mathematics
biology
discussed
as
stemming
from
impossibility
constructing
deterministic
“Laplacian”
and
failure
set
theory
capture
creative
evolutionary
processes
biosphere.
Indeed,
transcends
computation.
This
leads
necessity
finding
new
formalisms
describe
reality,
with
or
without
strictly
approaches.
In
former
case,
expressions
do
not
demand
numerical
equivalence
(equations)
provide
useful
information
exact
predictions.
Examples
approximations
equal
signs
given.
ineffectiveness
is
an
invitation
expand
science
see
creativity
formalism.
Язык: Английский
Discovering the Impact of Disruption on Creativity, Transformation, and Sustainability
Studies in big data,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 19 - 29
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
An ability to respond begins with inner alignment: How phase synchronisation effects transitions to higher levels of agency
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 21, 2024
Abstract
How
do
multiple
active
components
at
one
level
of
organisation
create
agential
wholes
higher
levels
organisation?
For
example,
in
organismic
development,
how
does
the
multi-scale
autonomy
organism
arise
from
interactions
molecules,
cells
and
tissues
that
an
contains?
And,
major
evolutionary
transitions,
a
multicellular
organism,
for
as
unit
selective
interests
its
unicellular
ancestors?
We
utilise
computational
models
way
to
think
about
this
general
question.
take
deliberately
minimalistic
notion
agent:
competency
two
possible
actions
minimise
stress.
Helping
ourselves
behaviour
microscale,
we
focus
on
conditions
where
same
type
agency
appears
spontaneously
organisation.
find
simple
process
positive
feedback
timing
individual
responses,
loosely
analogous
natural
phase
synchronisation
weakly
coupled
oscillators,
causes
such
transition
behaviour.
The
emergent
collectives
become,
quite
suddenly,
able
respond
their
external
stresses
(minimal)
sense
original
microscale
units.
This
effects
dramatic
rescaling
system
behaviour,
quantifiable
increase
problem-solving
competency,
serving
model
higher-level
emerges
pool
lower-level
agents
or
matter.
discuss
dynamical
‘waking-up’
collectives,
through
alignment
internal
dynamics,
might
relate
reproductive/cell-cycle
transitions
development.
Язык: Английский