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…My passion is to explore the relationship between the physical world and the conscious mind. In particular I am fascinated by how inert matter can become "alive", through incorporation into a certain pattern, and how learning and memory is encoded at different time scales. That is to say for instance, that life has a physical/chemical language for hard-coding information (memory) about its Identity as a library of historical Solutions to environmental challenges, both at the Species ("genome") and the individual (“genes”) level. Life has a mechanism to adapt to its physical environment (learn) both at the Species level through multiple generations of individuals (evolution), but also at the individual level over the individual's life span (somatic-development and neural-learning). Further and significantly, we as humans have an additional dimension: a “virtual” language that not only soft-codes our learning but allows us to communicate our experiences and thus virtually learn from each-other (“natural language"). And this virtual language has a “life” of its own at the Species level, arising from and existing through the minds of individuals, with Culture and History evolving in the "virtual world" as a result. We each learn, carry and create a thread of that cultural "genetic" history over the course of our life times. And through this kind of verbal intercourse that you and I are engaged in right now that thread gets woven into new combinations, spawning new ideas, new virtual life forms…
More to come...
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