Embark on a thought-provoking journey as we delve into more profound insights with Dr. Adrian Bejan. Dr. Bejan is the internationally acclaimed physicist who discovered the Constructal Law
In our first gueststeam, ActInf GuestStream 066.1 ~ Adrian Bejan, "The Physics of Life: How to Predict Evolution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3zyjv2Drw we learned how to apply the Constructal Law to predict design in nature.
In this second episode, Dr. Bejan will explain the Constructal Law through the lens of freedom. You can expect a captivating livestream event that promises to expand your intellectual curiosity with a liberating understanding of the natural evolution freedom plays within flow configurations.
Join us to:
Discover how the laws of physics govern the evolution of freedom. Gain a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of nature and human systems. Learn how societal structures and governance mechanisms evolve to optimize the distribution and accessibility of freedom within the constraints of the environment.
"From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking"
Ronen Tamari, Daniel Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, Dafna Shahaf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3511095.3536361
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7cu4slfIBA
Jonathan Gorard
“A computational perspective on observation and cognition”
It has become increasingly clear that a fully computational description of reality must somehow account for the relative computational sophistication of observers (including their processes of measurement, analysis and cognition) and the natural systems that they observe. An ongoing research program, based upon the mathematical formalism first set out in https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04690, seeks to use methods from category theory and topos theory to construct a purely compositional version of traditional computational and algorithmic complexity theory, within which an algebraic description of the tradeoff between observer vs. system complexity may be developed. It is claimed that this formalism has implications for the computational foundations of physics, mathematics, and potentially many other fields.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3rhsT-8isk
"Ecological organisations: reimagining our organisations and communities as radically responsible and responsive ecosystem members"
Anna-Marie Swan, author of the Ecological Organisations Framework, introduces us to ecological relationships, the assumptions the framework rests on, and why recognising our organisations and communities as rich webs of ecological relationships matters.
https://annamarieswan.com
https://annamarieswan.substack.com/p/the-ecological-organisations-framework
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8OIuyFXqQ0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-021-09787-1
The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there
Axel Constant, 2021.
Second participatory group discussion on the paper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZ_vnN0--Y
Andy Keller
https://akandykeller.github.io/
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a line of work which aims to improve the generalization properties of modern artificial intelligence through the integration of naturally observed neural structure. This will cover natural inductive biases such as topographic organization and traveling waves, and demonstrate how these observed neural properties can be seen to be experimentally related to the machine learning concepts of equivariance, structured representations, and long-term memory.
Papers:
- Topographic VAEs learn Equivariant Capsules: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01394, (video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8QJmO6u0SwM)
- Neural Wave Machines: https://openreview.net/forum?id=5tJSt3kn4s
- Traveling Waves Encode the Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning: https://akandykeller.github.io/papers/wRNN.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIRljnLtc4