Category: Talks

Unsupervised Embedding of Trajectories Captures the Latent Structure of Scientific Migration

Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar
January 24, 2024
Sadamori Kojaku (Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University)
“Unsupervised Embedding of Trajectories Captures the Latent Structure of Scientific Migration”

Watch at: vimeo.com

What can physics tell us about ourselves?

Humans can live up to age 100, and not 1000 – why? Are there limits in how much our brains can think and compute? The laws of physics can help explain a lot, both about our own human bodies and how we are connected to life all around us.

Listen at: complexity.simplecast.com

Ricard Sole on the Space of Cognitions – Sean Carroll

Octopuses, artificial intelligence, and advanced alien civilizations: for many reasons, it’s interesting to contemplate ways of thinking other than whatever it is we humans do. How should we think about the space of all possible cognitions? One aspect is simply the physics of the underlying substrate, the physical stuff that is actually doing the thinking. We are used to brains being solid — squishy, perhaps, but consisting of units in an essentially fixed array. What about liquid brains, where the units can move around? Would an ant colony count? We talk with complexity theorist Ricard Solé about complexity, criticality, and cognition.

Listen at: www.preposterousuniverse.com