Love and Philosophy | Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson and Andrea Hiott Audio Only @waymaking23 | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is a way-making research conversation with Prof. Richard A. Watson (richardawatson.com/) of the University of Southhampton (Institute for Life Sciences/ Department of Computer Science, Agents, Interaction and Complexity group). You can watch the video here (youtube.com/@waymaking23) . We discuss the traditional ideas of adaptation and a Richard Dawkins (richarddawkins.net/) style approach to Darwinism and then how this might be reimagined, as Richard Watson is doing in his work. We also discuss what it means to be an individual . Are love and logic opposites? How might we dance with a music that is both scientific and personal?
For Songs of Life (youtu.be/zdmY6q2ZWm8?feature=shared) : youtu.be/zdmY6q2ZWm8?feature=shared
00:30 Exploring Individuality and the Body: Insights from a Recent Talk
01:15 Cognition and Mutual Transformative Change
02:51 The Intersection of Love and Science: A Surprising Conversation Turn
04:20 Challenging Universality
11:37 Into Learning: Expanding the Framework of Adapting
28:27 The Essence of Individuality: Agency and Beyond
32:18 Redefining being: The Role of Agency
39:19 Exploring the Dynamics of Cellularity
39:42 The Bidirectional Relationship Between Cells and Their Environment
40:51 Challenging the Linear Model of Information Flow
41:08 Rethinking Traditions
42:09 The Personal Journey: Science, Love, and Vulnerability
42:37 Reimagining Agency and Intelligence
43:26 A Different Perspective on Adaptation
44:45 Scientific and Personal Realization
46:36 The Role of Love in Development
50:35 Understanding Development Through the Lens of Love
01:00:55 The Dance of Life: Harmony, Resonance, and Relation
01:17:36 Concluding Thoughts: Love, Fear, and the Dance of Life
By love and philosophy, we mean the people, passions, and ideas that move us, shape the trajectories of our lives, and co-create our wider social landscapes.
Through these research conversations, we are hoping to better observe binary distinctions in our academic & personal lives: What positive roles have these structures played? How might rethinking these structures & their parameters open new paths & ecological potentials?
Richard Watson’s personal website. (richardawatson.com/my-research)
Compositional Evolution (amazon.com/Compositional-Evolution-Modularity-Gradualist-Theoretical/dp/0262538091)
Publications. (richardawatson.com/publications-1)
Conversations with Chris Fields and Michael Levin. (drmichaellevin.org/resources/guests.html)
Master thesis that Richard kindly mentions. (researchgate.net/publication/361114681_Ecological_Memory_the_spatiotemporal_commons_of_conceptual_and_physical_navigation)
Valencia Event (youtube.com/watch?v=9DU2y4i2d9Y)
Video of the Conversation, (youtube.com/@waymaking23) in case you want to see the moment at the end where he shows us love on the wall.
Biography of Richard Watson (biologicalpurpose.org/people/richard-watson#:~:text=Dr%20Richard%20Watson%20studies%20evolution,Science%20at%20Brandeis%20in%20Boston.) :
"Dr Richard Watson studies evolution, learning, cognition and society and their unifying algorithmic principles. He studied Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Systems at Sussex University, then PhD Computer Science at Brandeis in Boston. His current work deepens the unification of evolution and learning - specifically, with connectionist models of learning and cognition, familiar in neural network research – to address topics such as evolvability, ecological memory, evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs), phenotypic plasticity, the extended evolutionary synthesis, collective intelligence and 'design'. He has also developed new computational methods for combinatorial optimisation (deep optimisation), exploiting a unification of deep learning and ‘deep evolution’ (i.e. ETIs). He is author of "Compositional evolution" (MIT Press), was featured as "one to watch in AI” in Intelligent Systems magazine, and his paper “How Can Evolution Learn” in TREE, attracted the ISAL award 2016. He is now Associate Professor at the University of Southampton."
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This is a way-making research conversation with Prof. Richard A. Watson (richardawatson.com/) of the University of Southhampton (Institute for Life Sciences/ Department of Computer Science, Agents, Interaction and Complexity group). You can watch the video here (youtube.com/@waymaking23) . We discuss the traditional ideas of adaptation and a Richard Dawkins (richarddawkins.net/) style approach to Darwinism and then how this might be reimagined, as Richard Watson is doing in his work. We also discuss what it means to be an individual . Are love and logic opposites? How might we dance with a music that is both scientific and personal?
For Songs of Life (youtu.be/zdmY6q2ZWm8?feature=shared) : youtu.be/zdmY6q2ZWm8?feature=shared
00:30 Exploring Individuality and the Body: Insights from a Recent Talk
01:15 Cognition and Mutual Transformative Change
02:51 The Intersection of Love and Science: A Surprising Conversation Turn
04:20 Challenging Universality
11:37 Into Learning: Expanding the Framework of Adapting
28:27 The Essence of Individuality: Agency and Beyond
32:18 Redefining being: The Role of Agency
39:19 Exploring the Dynamics of Cellularity
39:42 The Bidirectional Relationship Between Cells and Their Environment
40:51 Challenging the Linear Model of Information Flow
41:08 Rethinking Traditions
42:09 The Personal Journey: Science, Love, and Vulnerability
42:37 Reimagining Agency and Intelligence
43:26 A Different Perspective on Adaptation
44:45 Scientific and Personal Realization
46:36 The Role of Love in Development
50:35 Understanding Development Through the Lens of Love
01:00:55 The Dance of Life: Harmony, Resonance, and Relation
01:17:36 Concluding Thoughts: Love, Fear, and the Dance of Life
By love and philosophy, we mean the people, passions, and ideas that move us, shape the trajectories of our lives, and co-create our wider social landscapes.
Through these research conversations, we are hoping to better observe binary distinctions in our academic & personal lives: What positive roles have these structures played? How might rethinking these structures & their parameters open new paths & ecological potentials?
Richard Watson’s personal website. (richardawatson.com/my-research)
Compositional Evolution (amazon.com/Compositional-Evolution-Modularity-Gradualist-Theoretical/dp/0262538091)
Publications. (richardawatson.com/publications-1)
Conversations with Chris Fields and Michael Levin. (drmichaellevin.org/resources/guests.html)
Master thesis that Richard kindly mentions. (researchgate.net/publication/361114681_Ecological_Memory_the_spatiotemporal_commons_of_conceptual_and_physical_navigation)
Valencia Event (youtube.com/watch?v=9DU2y4i2d9Y)
Video of the Conversation, (youtube.com/@waymaking23) in case you want to see the moment at the end where he shows us love on the wall.
Biography of Richard Watson (biologicalpurpose.org/people/richard-watson#:~:text=Dr%20Richard%20Watson%20studies%20evolution,Science%20at%20Brandeis%20in%20Boston.) :
"Dr Richard Watson studies evolution, learning, cognition and society and their unifying algorithmic principles. He studied Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Systems at Sussex University, then PhD Computer Science at Brandeis in Boston. His current work deepens the unification of evolution and learning - specifically, with connectionist models of learning and cognition, familiar in neural network research – to address topics such as evolvability, ecological memory, evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs), phenotypic plasticity, the extended evolutionary synthesis, collective intelligence and 'design'. He has also developed new computational methods for combinatorial optimisation (deep optimisation), exploiting a unification of deep learning and ‘deep evolution’ (i.e. ETIs). He is author of "Compositional evolution" (MIT Press), was featured as "one to watch in AI” in Intelligent Systems magazine, and his paper “How Can Evolution Learn” in TREE, attracted the ISAL award 2016. He is now Associate Professor at the University of Southampton."
Google Scholar (scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DBDLLYQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works)
Support on Patreon (patreon.com/LoveandPhilosophy?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink) and You Tube (youtube.com/@waymaking23) . Listen anywhere you find podcasts.
Support the show (loveandphilosophy.com/giving-page)
Please rate and review with love.
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