This is a ~1 hour conversation on the future of mental health from the perspective of the diverse intelligence field, with Alexey Tolchinsky (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=tiBKmrsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate), Anthony Weiss (https://www.anthonypweiss.com/about-anthony-weiss), and Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Psychiatry's stalled progress

(04:54) Faulty mental models

(11:36) Tools and treatment goals

(24:06) Nonlinear living systems

(31:21) Energy shaping agency

(41:51) Technology entangles minds

(53:08) Effort and agentic models

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This is a ~1 hour working meeting with Thomas Pollak (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/thomas-pollak, https://drtompollak.substack.com/) and David King (https://profiles.stanford.edu/361883, https://breakingconvention.co.uk/performers/dave-king) about the intersection of neuroscience, mental health, and diverse intelligence research.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Agency in psychiatry

(05:14) Mental real estate

(10:31) Internal agency mechanics

(21:43) Dissociation and multiplicity

(30:04) Interfaces and inspiration

(38:43) Signals and prostheses

(48:18) Psychedelics and entities

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This is a ~54 minute talk titled "Diverse Intelligence: a new frontier for Origins, Possibilities, and Diseases of the Mind(s)" which I gave for an audience composed of mental health professionals and neuroscientists.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Roadmap and stakes

(04:13) Minds as continuum

(08:04) Diverse intelligence framework

(11:12) Biological plasticity examples

(18:18) Morphogenesis as intelligence

(22:31) Multiscale cellular agency

(26:39) Anatomical problem solving

(32:40) Ancient bioelectric networks

(35:34) Communicating somatic goals

(42:02) Cancer and medicine

(46:37) Novel living agents

(51:56) Ethics and summary

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This is a ~57 minute talk titled "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs: the mitochondrial daily energy expenditure MDEE study" by Martin Picard (https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/profile/martin-picard-phd) and a brief set of ideas by me at the end, presaging a full discussion of this for our next meeting.

I mentioned these 2 papers:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264722001435

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.201900245

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Mitochondria energy tradeoffs

(52:14) Scarcity coordinates biology

(54:44) Anthrobot aging evidence

(56:31) Follow-up ideas

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This is ~23 minute talk overviewing our recent results and the way we think about aging and longevity. It was for a conference with quite short speaking slots so I had to talk fast... Longer talk coming with more data but this outlines some ideas and overviews our published recent work on aging.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Aging framework overview

(01:16) Bodies as setpoints

(03:08) Anatomical homeostasis examples

(06:40) Bioelectric pattern memory

(08:41) Rewriting biological setpoints

(12:31) Aging bioelectric fuzziness

(14:18) Sharpening brain patterns

(17:34) Cognitive aging hypothesis

(19:42) Atavistic tissue dissociation

(22:21) Species longevity questions

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Discussion #2 (57 minutes on computationalism and consciousness) with Borjan Milinkovic (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AwaZbzsAAAAJ&hl=en), Jaan Aru (https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FvFOzS8AAAAJ&hl=en%29), and Nicolas Rouleau (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=FyOpVTAAAAAJ&hl=en).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) AI consciousness middle ground

(04:46) Substrate dependent minds

(08:07) Analog computer substrates

(13:44) Zombies and digital computers

(18:56) Polycomputing and observers

(25:01) Felt experience defined

(30:08) Action first embodiment

(34:08) Causal emergence and memory

(42:36) Self versus environment

(46:47) Cognitive light cones

(51:44) Boundary gradients and observers

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This is a talk I gave, ~49 minutes long, titled "Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space", to a philosophy audience. It covers some more ways I think about the latent space of patterns that in-forms biology and cognitive science.

CHAPTERS:

(00:02) Research program overview

(05:15) Dissolving old categories

(10:54) Goal-directed morphogenesis basics

(14:11) Rewriting bioelectric patterns

(19:23) Novel embodied abilities

(23:35) Molecular agency ratchet

(27:33) Math and living forms

(33:31) Evolutionary accounting breaks

(41:04) High agency patterns

(47:01) Diverse intelligence future

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This is a ~2 hour discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Symposium (

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Strong perception framework

(10:12) Perception model boundaries

(17:41) Penrose and probabilities

(30:57) Quantum interpretations debated

(39:28) Probability dynamics and gravity

(53:50) Relational observer problem

(01:00:30) Dance synchronization physics

(01:12:02) Rituals and group flow

(01:23:43) Boundaries and agency

(01:31:38) Religious possibility spaces

(01:46:30) Numbers in theology

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This is a ~2 hours 4 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Symposium (

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Strong anticipation analogy

(08:16) Relational Platonic patterns

(25:06) Finite brains, infinite grammar

(40:05) Beauty and compression

(51:17) Searching for grammar

(01:01:58) Patterns and selfhood

(01:14:44) Patterns claiming territory

(01:29:28) Markets shape selves

(01:43:57) Scaling collective selves

(01:55:47) Testing Platonic feedback

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This is a ~1 hour 5 minute discussion with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz ( Carlos Gershenson-Garcia ( and Richard Watson ( Stay tuned for part 2 where Amahury will present his ideas in more detail. Amahury's paper:

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Common ground and stakes

(06:10) Ontology of platonic space

(14:50) Testing separate realms

(25:52) Acid tests and metaphors

(34:55) Interaction and narratives

(44:20) Formal facts alternative

(52:38) Experiments and surprise

(01:00:29) Closing reframing proposal

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