Diagram by Jeffrery Goldstein - Remix by @samim. #ALife #Complexity
Diagram by Jeffrery Goldstein - Remix by @samim. #ALife #Complexity
Short Movie Of The Day: ‘Island’ by @maxmoertl & @robertloebel: #ALife
"Synthetic organisms are about to challenge what 'alive' really means" - by Vint Cerf:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-life-vint-cerf #ALife
"We need to begin a debate about whether artificially evolved humans are our future, and if we should put an end to these experiments before it is too late"
"In 2019 we will have to take seriously the possibility of our developing multicellular artificial life, and we will need to start thinking about the ethical and philosophical challenges such a possibility brings up."
"Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution": https://www.pnas.org/content/112/8/2307 #Nature #Biology #ALife
Beyond "geo-engineering", there is "life-engineering". While currently a ethical minefield & mostly illegal, climate change change might change that soon.
LIFE - a documentary series. Episode 2 focuses on "Neurorobotics". It features interviews with pioneering researchers in the field & explores their works. #Robot #ALife #Projects
INTERVIEWS: Mark Tilden, William Grey Walter, Barbara Webb, Valentino Braitenberg, Anthony Pipe, Ingo Rechenberg, Rodney Brooks, Thomas DeMarse, Gerald Edelman, Jeffrey Krichmar
WORKS: Auke Ijspeert, Rolf Pfeifer, Marc Raibert, Philippe Gaussier, Boston Dynamics, Festo, Eccerobot, Roboy
Roboy - "Robots as good as the human body": https://roboy.org/
http://playfulmachines.com/ - by Ralf Der and Georg Martius:
https://www.amazon.de/Playful-Machine-Theoretical-Realization-Self-Organizing/dp/3642202527
Self-Learning Robot
Playful Machines - Elastic tendon driven arm explores itself and its environment
Frontiers in Neurorobotics publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in the science and technology of embodied autonomous neural systems:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics #ALife #Robot
Responsible Research and the Human Brain Project - talk by Nikolas Rose
Opinion on Responsible Dual Use from the Human Brain Project:
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/opinion-on-responsible-dual-use-from-the-human-brain-project/
SpiNNaker: 1 million core neuromorphic platform:
Misha Mahowald: genesis of Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering workshop:
Synthetic neural modeling applied to a real-world artifact - by Gerald Edelman et.al (1992)
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/89/15/7267.full.pdf
"The Neurosciences Institute was a unique place. The director was Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman. In addition to his work in immunology, which led to the Nobel Prize, he introduced a theory of the nervous system called Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (Edelman, 1987, 1993). The theory suggested that there was selection of neural circuits during development through synaptic pruning, and selection of groups of neurons during adulthood through reentrant connections. Important for neurorobotics was the notion of value systems to tie environmental signals to neuronal groups, which led to the selection of behaviors important for survival. Because of this linkage, or as Edelman would say, “The brain is embodied, and the body is embedded in the environment,” their group developed the Darwin series of Brain-Based Devices (Reeke et al., 1990; Edelman et al., 1992). Another phrase that drove this work, was “the world is an unlabeled place,” which meant that perceptual categories must be selected through experience, rather than supervision. These Brain-Based Devices were robots3 with large-scale neural networks controlling their behavior (Figure 2). However, these were not the feedforward input layer→hidden layers→output layer neural networks that were popular then and became the deep neural networks of today. The Brain-Based Device’s neural networks had anatomical details that resembled biological neural networks. There were sensory streams, top-down connections, long-range connections between regions that were bi-directional, as well as local lateral excitation and inhibition within brain regions."from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2018.00042/full
Interviews with Gerald Edelman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Edelman
The theory of neural Darwinism:
Putting the mind back in nature:
Conscious artifacts
Brain based device