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colinhales.bsky.social
Neuroscientist/Engineer. Researcher at the University of Melbourne. Mission: the creation of inorganic brain technology for machines that learn and handle novelty in the manner of natural intelligence. Main expertise: Brain electromagnetism.
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Deadline is today! However, if you've missed it (heaven forbid) I am told that submissions that arrive up until *Sunday* will still be forwarded to the editor ... so its not too late!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ilya Sutskever asks “Why can’t digital computers do the same [as AI]?” The reason is that the brain isn’t digital. Digital AI needs nuclear plants. The brain runs on 20W. Analog computing is vastly more efficient—and the brain constantly generates the raw material: waves. youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs?...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

20 cited postulated ToC. 1 "winner" somewhere in that list. 35 years of "correlates-of" science is in its adversarial collaborative end game, a kind of heat-death that reveals the explanatory emptiness of correlates of subjective experience. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I was a guest on Tam Hunt's "Diamond Mind" podcast episode 10. It's on EM Field theories of consciousness. It was fun to do. Editing it down to 1hr must have been a tough job. I think it works. Enjoy! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZmQCVAGLr...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A great thread by Matthew Larkum on our recent paper🧵 He clarifies how we model the experiment with the Turing machine and ends his thread with the hard choice the computational functionalist must face😢

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I was a guest on Tam Hunt's "Diamond Mind" podcast episode 10. It's on EM Field theories of consciousness. It was fun to do. Editing it down to 1hr must have been a tough job. I think it works. Enjoy! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZmQCVAGLr...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Is Bernie Baars listening?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

New paper! Cognitive independence and interactions between cerebral hemispheres doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroscience

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

There are 3 cargo cults operating in science: 1) The science of AI 2) The science of consciousness 3) Particle physics. Notice that all 3 span the full breadth of the physical sciences. I'm here to say that in the end the solution to all three will be the brain. Here's 3: youtu.be/XqoyTSAF5g0?...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

How natural general intelligence gets to grips with natural physics ... In a way that no generative "AI" will ever understand: www.facebook.com/share/v/1GVZ...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Autonomy getting some attention. Finally. By @tonyzador.bsky.social. But I would elevate it even further: if an agent cannot autonomously acquire new càpability its intelligence is zero. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/neur...

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

@johanneskleiner.bsky.social Hi, Please add me to the consciousness starter packs. Happy 2025! Cheers Colin

submitted 154 days ago • 2 comments

Finally someone attempts an estimate of the conditions under which computational functionalism HYPOTHESIS is true. When you have to convert solar systems into compute and still fail, don't we get the latitude to question assumptions? We need the same analysis done from multiple directions.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments