Mike
@greenthumb891.bsky.social
Self-educated | Construction Worker |Passionate about continuing education | Dad | Husband | 📚🧠
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Mike
@greenthumb891.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Interested in philosophy to physics and all there is in between. It took many years but now I see the benefits of a properly educated mind. Here to continue my life-long learning passion.
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Embodiment and life
Citations from @anilseth.bsky.social:
"We perceive the world around us, and ourselves within in, with, through, and because of our living bodies."
"It might be life, not information processing that breathes fire into the equations of consciousness."
Citations from @anilseth.bsky.social:
"We perceive the world around us, and ourselves within in, with, through, and because of our living bodies."
"It might be life, not information processing that breathes fire into the equations of consciousness."
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Embodiment and life
Citations from @anilseth.bsky.social:
"We perceive the world around us, and ourselves within in, with, through, and because of our living bodies."
"It might be life, not information processing that breathes fire into the equations of consciousness."
Citations from @anilseth.bsky.social:
"We perceive the world around us, and ourselves within in, with, through, and because of our living bodies."
"It might be life, not information processing that breathes fire into the equations of consciousness."
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"deadly, but beautiful." What a poetic way to call it.
Robert Gatenby's evolutionary approach to cancer in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Aastha Jain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...
Robert Gatenby's evolutionary approach to cancer in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Aastha Jain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...
Optimize Cancer Therapy Using Evolution | Michael Levin & Robert Gatenby
YouTube video by Live Longer World
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"deadly, but beautiful." What a poetic way to call it.
Robert Gatenby's evolutionary approach to cancer in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Aastha Jain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...
Robert Gatenby's evolutionary approach to cancer in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Aastha Jain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...
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How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing
As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows.
picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra...
#neuroscience
As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows.
picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra...
#neuroscience
How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing
As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows.
picower.mit.edu
September 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing
As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows.
picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra...
#neuroscience
As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows.
picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra...
#neuroscience
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Karl Friston's take on agency in the context of self-modeling, driven by evaluations of consequences, which implies planing and choosing between counterfactuals. I think this is a beautiful additional view to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social's book Free Agents
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Intelligence Has A Size Goldilocks Zone (Karl Friston) | Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D.
Agency, planning, self-modelining and consequence evaluation in FEP
I find this quote by professor Friston to be particularly useful. Source
https://lnkd.in/dYFUAu2f
"You unlock or manifest or you ...
www.linkedin.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Karl Friston's take on agency in the context of self-modeling, driven by evaluations of consequences, which implies planing and choosing between counterfactuals. I think this is a beautiful additional view to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social's book Free Agents
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...
"Cognition is emergent" by Earl Miller
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...
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Universal Learning of Nonlinear Dynamics
One more cool paper on this. This one is mathematical but a nice overview of existing methods for mere mortals.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11990
#ComplexSystems
One more cool paper on this. This one is mathematical but a nice overview of existing methods for mere mortals.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11990
#ComplexSystems
August 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Universal Learning of Nonlinear Dynamics
One more cool paper on this. This one is mathematical but a nice overview of existing methods for mere mortals.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11990
#ComplexSystems
One more cool paper on this. This one is mathematical but a nice overview of existing methods for mere mortals.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11990
#ComplexSystems
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Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
A universal marker of unconsciousness could transform both medicine and our understanding of the mind.
bigthink.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
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So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
August 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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What Distinguishes Quantum Causality from Classical Causality?
A Conceptual Clarification
substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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If robots can do it, maybe all drummers can aquire human-like behavior. Ha?
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
techxplore.com/news/2025-08...
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
techxplore.com/news/2025-08...
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
Humanoid robots, robots with a human-like body structure, have so far been primarily tested on manual tasks that entail supporting humans in their daily activities, such as carrying objects, collectin...
techxplore.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If robots can do it, maybe all drummers can aquire human-like behavior. Ha?
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
techxplore.com/news/2025-08...
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
techxplore.com/news/2025-08...
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What is this world we're living in? Why am I feeling ashamed of being human? A whole people is starved, shot, and bombed to death on live television everyday for months on end, and nobody does anything serious about it. ... (1/2)
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What is this world we're living in? Why am I feeling ashamed of being human? A whole people is starved, shot, and bombed to death on live television everyday for months on end, and nobody does anything serious about it. ... (1/2)
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Causal emergence as a function of learning.
Citation: "We show that the process of learning [stimulating various components of this chemical network to cause learning] increases causal emergence."
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFL...
Citation: "We show that the process of learning [stimulating various components of this chemical network to cause learning] increases causal emergence."
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFL...
"Beyond complexity & emergence: taming multiscale competency in agential materials" by Michael Levin
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
www.youtube.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Causal emergence as a function of learning.
Citation: "We show that the process of learning [stimulating various components of this chemical network to cause learning] increases causal emergence."
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFL...
Citation: "We show that the process of learning [stimulating various components of this chemical network to cause learning] increases causal emergence."
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFL...
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Memory is communication from the past self to the future Self (C. Fields)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8...
"Non-causal information flow in evolution, development, and behavior" by Chris Fields
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Memory is communication from the past self to the future Self (C. Fields)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8...
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Interesting critique of my ideas. Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? Can universal consciousness be deliberate?
www.essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ide...
www.essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ide...
Analytic Idealism and the possibility of a meta-conscious cosmic mind
Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? If so, can the noti...
www.essentiafoundation.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Interesting critique of my ideas. Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? Can universal consciousness be deliberate?
www.essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ide...
www.essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ide...
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Information propagating from one embodiment to another one.
(a phrase by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social)
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
(a phrase by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social)
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Information propagating from one embodiment to another one. | Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D.
Information propagating from one embodiment to another one.
(a phrase by Michael Levin)
Follow-up from
https://lnkd.in/e296ZzqW
minute 35
As you read these words, there is a chance that content...
www.linkedin.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Information propagating from one embodiment to another one.
(a phrase by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social)
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
(a phrase by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social)
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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I got to reading and listening to this fascinating work by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Lakshwin Shreesha on stress as cognitive glue. Powerful.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Stress sharing as cognitive glue. | Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D.
Stress sharing as cognitive glue.
Here is another creative idea from Michael Levin and Lakshwin Shreesha
https://lnkd.in/eASb7q3y
Paper
Shreesha, L., & Levin, M. (2024). Stress sharing as cog...
www.linkedin.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I got to reading and listening to this fascinating work by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Lakshwin Shreesha on stress as cognitive glue. Powerful.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Do you know how crazy the weather has been? It is about to get crazier.
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse
A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a ...
www.intellinews.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Do you know how crazy the weather has been? It is about to get crazier.
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
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Hans Busstra and Dr. Lídia del Rio talk to Dr. Matthew Leifer about, among many other things, the ‘Bell-Wigner mashups’: thought-experiments that entangle different observers to arrive at the disturbing consequence that there is no ‘absoluteness of facts’ for all observers.
youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA
youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA
Respectable Anti-Realism: Quantum Mechanics Turns Epistemic
YouTube video by Essentia Foundation
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hans Busstra and Dr. Lídia del Rio talk to Dr. Matthew Leifer about, among many other things, the ‘Bell-Wigner mashups’: thought-experiments that entangle different observers to arrive at the disturbing consequence that there is no ‘absoluteness of facts’ for all observers.
youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA
youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA
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I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype
Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball
www.newscientist.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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"I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what Secretary Kennedy gets wrong."
theconversation.com/im-a-physici...
theconversation.com/im-a-physici...
I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.
theconversation.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what Secretary Kennedy gets wrong."
theconversation.com/im-a-physici...
theconversation.com/im-a-physici...
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Here I explain the different types of idealism, Objective, Subjective & Epistemic, and their relationship to Analytic Idealism.
youtu.be/ergQ3Rpn5KQ
youtu.be/ergQ3Rpn5KQ
Explained: Idealism of Schopenhauer vs Kant vs Berkley
YouTube video by Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺
youtu.be
June 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Here I explain the different types of idealism, Objective, Subjective & Epistemic, and their relationship to Analytic Idealism.
youtu.be/ergQ3Rpn5KQ
youtu.be/ergQ3Rpn5KQ