Contributors to the Platonic Space Symposium discuss relational Platonic patterns, finite minds and infinite grammar, beauty as compression, selfhood, markets, and ways to test feedback in collective systems.
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Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson discuss the ontology of Platonic space, tests for separate realms, and alternatives involving formal facts, experiments, and explanatory narratives.
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Donald Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, Robert Chis-Ciure, and Chris Fields discuss a multiscale logic of collective intelligence, covering observers, agency, causal emergence, quantum logic, and consciousness-first models.
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Lisa Maroski, Michael Levin, and Richard Watson discuss how language shapes thinking in diverse intelligence, covering systems thinking, recursion, biological agency, patterns, and belief formation.
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A roundtable with Richard Watson, Alexey Tolchinsky, Mark Solms, Michael Levin, and Karl Friston on memory and forgetting in human and unconventional intelligence. They also discuss overfitting, REM sleep, dreams, and collective cellular identity.
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Neuroscientist Nicolas Rouleau joins Michael Levin for a wide-ranging discussion on the mind as a material process, exploring free will, agency, cybernetics, brain death, and how consciousness and information might be transmitted or realized in different systems.
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Neuroscientist Nicolas Rouleau joins for a follow-up discussion on consciousness, memory transfer, cognitive plasticity and aging, goal decoding in the brain, and unusual experiments on conditioning and learning in materials like Play-Doh and neural tissues.
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Lisa Barrett, Karen Quigley, and Benjamin Lyons continue their discussion of relational realism, allostasis, predictive processing, and embodiment, exploring how brain, body, and world jointly shape emotion, perception, and scientific objectivity.
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Thomas Seyfried, Derek Lee, Tomás Duraj and colleagues discuss cancer as a metabolic disease, examining mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic therapies, ion channels, bioelectric control, and links to aging, regeneration, and disease models.
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Borjan Milinkovic presents a case for biological computationalism in consciousness, discussing neural architectures, metabolic constraints, heterarchical scale integration, dendritic and field-based computation, and consequences for artificial consciousness.
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This 1h44m roundtable on the Platonic Space Hypothesis explores platonic forms in biology, xenobots, symbiosis, competency spaces, play and plasticity, Markov blankets, thermodynamics, and will-to-live dynamics.
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A 54-minute discussion with philosopher Darren Iammarino on open problems in the Platonic Space model, exploring patterns, minds, causation, randomness, quantum scale, and the nature of cyborg and unconventional minds and identities.
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