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Robotic hand and human hand cradle a growing plant with green leaves against a blue background.
Robotic hand and human hand cradle a growing plant with green leaves against a blue background.
Robotic hand and human hand cradle a growing plant with green leaves against a blue background.
Imagine AI Public Benefit Cooperatives for the Ecological and Social Common Good

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Host, Author and Advocate

Jan 11, 2025

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Community members working together to build a wooden structure in an open field.
Community members working together to build a wooden structure in an open field.
Community members working together to build a wooden structure in an open field.
Moving Beyond the Left-Right Divide: Governance by First Principles and Natural Intelligences

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Host, Author and Advocate

Feb 14, 2024

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Close-up of a cheetah’s face with green foliage in the background.
Close-up of a cheetah’s face with green foliage in the background.
What is Intelligence? Machine — Natural — Digital — Ethical?

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Host, Author and Advocate

Feb 28, 2023

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Robotic hand and human hand cradle a growing plant with green leaves against a blue background.
Imagine AI Public Benefit Cooperatives for the Ecological and Social Common Good

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Jan 11, 2025

ESSAY

Community members working together to build a wooden structure in an open field.
Moving Beyond the Left-Right Divide: Governance by First Principles and Natural Intelligences

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Feb 14, 2024

ESSAY

Close-up of a cheetah’s face with green foliage in the background.
What is Intelligence? Machine — Natural — Digital — Ethical?

John H. Clippinger

Host, Author and Advocate

Feb 28, 2023

ESSAY

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Self-Governance by Prediction and Active Inferencing?

John H. Clippinger

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Sep 13, 2021

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Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence

Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston

2024

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AI: A Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

Michael Levin

2024

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Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue

Michael Levin

2024

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Traces of Consciousness

Swapan Chattopadhyay, Manish Singh, Donald Hoffman, Ben Knepper, Chetan Prakash, Robert Prentner, Manish Singh

2024

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Constructing Condensed Memories in Functorial Time

Shanna Dobson and Chris Fields

2024

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The Free Energy Principle Induces Compartmentalization

Chris Fields

2024

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Snakes and Ladders in the Evolution of Language

Chris Fields and Michael Levin

2024

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Fusions of Consciousness

Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash and Robert Prentner

2023

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Federated inference and belief sharing

Karl J Friston, Thomas Parr, Conor Heins, Axel Constant, Daniel Friedman, Takuya Isomura, Chris Fields, Tim Verbelen, Maxwell Ramstead, John Clippinger, Christopher D Frith

2023

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Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence

Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston

2024

Read

AI: A Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

Michael Levin

2024

Read

Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue

Michael Levin

2024

Read

Traces of Consciousness

Swapan Chattopadhyay, Manish Singh, Donald Hoffman, Ben Knepper, Chetan Prakash, Robert Prentner, Manish Singh

2024

Read

Constructing Condensed Memories in Functorial Time

Shanna Dobson and Chris Fields

2024

Read

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Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence

Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston

2024

Read

AI: A Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

Michael Levin

2024

Read

Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue

Michael Levin

2024

Read

Traces of Consciousness

Swapan Chattopadhyay, Manish Singh, Donald Hoffman, Ben Knepper, Chetan Prakash, Robert Prentner, Manish Singh

2024

Read

Constructing Condensed Memories in Functorial Time

Shanna Dobson and Chris Fields

2024

Read

The Free Energy Principle Induces Compartmentalization

Chris Fields

2024

Read

Snakes and Ladders in the Evolution of Language

Chris Fields and Michael Levin

2024

Read

Fusions of Consciousness

Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash and Robert Prentner

2023

Read

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