The discussants are interested in developing a theoretical framework that links together cognition, evolution, adaptation, development and computation. They want to explain how mechanistic processes at one level of organization can be autonomous yet interact with higher and lower levels.
Resonance is seen as a form of error correction and a mechanism that links different levels of organization. Error correcting codes also provide a way to link discrete spaces and redundancy.
Oscillations and harmonics can pack multiple octaves within each other, providing semi-independent yet interacting dynamical processes at different scales of organization.
There is a debate between reductionists who see everything in terms of lower level processes, and those who argue for higher level phenomena with some autonomy.
Physical systems with reversibility can exhibit adaptation through a process of physical optimization and physical learning that finds low energy configurations.
Computation may be possible using physical oscillations if the system has reversibility between state spaces and weight spaces.
Deep learning networks become difficult to reverse engineer at deeper levels due to the complex decision boundaries created by non-linearities.
Oscillator networks using phase space instead of amplitude space may allow changes at deeper correlations without disrupting higher frequency folds.
Effective communication is seen as a “violent act” that necessarily changes the listener in some way.
Exposure to new ideas and information can be disruptive, though also enlightening.
The discussants are interested in developing a theoretical framework that links together cognition, evolution, adaptation, development and computation. They want to explain how mechanistic processes at one level of organization can be autonomous yet interact with higher and lower levels.
Resonance is seen as a form of error correction and a mechanism that links different levels of organization. Error correcting codes also provide a way to link discrete spaces and redundancy.
Oscillations and harmonics can pack multiple octaves within each other, providing semi-independent yet interacting dynamical processes at different scales of organization.
There is a debate between reductionists who see everything in terms of lower level processes, and those who argue for higher level phenomena with some autonomy.
Physical systems with reversibility can exhibit adaptation through a process of physical optimization and physical learning that finds low energy configurations.
Computation may be possible using physical oscillations if the system has reversibility between state spaces and weight spaces.
Deep learning networks become difficult to reverse engineer at deeper levels due to the complex decision boundaries created by non-linearities.
Oscillator networks using phase space instead of amplitude space may allow changes at deeper correlations without disrupting higher frequency folds.
Effective communication is seen as a “violent act” that necessarily changes the listener in some way.
Exposure to new ideas and information can be disruptive, though also enlightening.
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