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“The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas.”

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AeonHow the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon EssaysThe brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

Further Exploration of Emergence and Intelligence

Collaborative Flow: AI + Human + ...

A human-AI exploration of "flow" had an epiphany (thanks, AI Claude!): trying to EXPLAIN emergent insights risks "crystallizing" them & killing the flow.

The new way?

DEMONSTRATE.

Share the raw interactions. Let understanding emerge. "Leave your bags behind."

Substack: tinyurl.com/53t4snsf

Youtube: youtu.be/u6qnTQbKcxM

#GuestContribution Dr. #Wolfgang #Stegemann: #Emergence of #consciousness

I share a fondness for #epistemology and #theory of #science with Wolfgang. What separates us a little, however, are our different approaches and #concepts for describing the phenomenon of consciousness. In my view, Wolfgang always wants to link consciousness with the special #cognitive #capabilities of the #human #brain and locate everything there.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2024

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Achim #Stephan: “I feel, therefore I am. How #feelings influence our #thinking.”

He was Professor of #Philosophy of #Cognition at the University of Osnabrück and Dean of the #CognitiveScience program. His main field of work is the #philosophyofmind, and in particular #emergence, #emotions and #affectivity, from #predictability to #selforganization”.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2024

or: youtu.be/gMherlB50K4

The assumption is that there are certain physical laws (‘equations’) that all matter must obey, epitomized in the Newtonian paradigm. In sum, this is an ‘upward’ theory of causation. … What is causing scientists to consider that one must go beyond analysis is their dawning realization that upward causality contains no explanation for why complexity increases. Note that “complex forms emerge” is not an answer: emergence is a descriptive concept, not an explanatory one.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#science #assumptions #paradigms #complexity #emergence