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Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Biological Organisms vs. Machine Learning Systems

The brain doesn't have a causal model of its own processes, but studies show simple mechanisms like grammatical structure are reflected in the brain. The developments in computer science have led to a different track, with perceptron being a toy model of what cells are doing. Machine learning systems are amazing, but they differ significantly from biological organisms in the way they operate. The self-organizing system in biological organisms is not akin to the external application of machine learning principles. The perspective of local self-organization by reinforcement agents from neuroscience hasn't made its way into computer science.

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