[FRIAM] new directions at the michael levin lab

[Marcus Daniels]

I’ve never been able to understand people that play or write video games.    There’s one game some colleagues were playing that simulated navigating academia and becoming a PI.   People like nursing their PTSD?   Ick.

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2024 2:53 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
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My older daughter knows Baba Is You, she says it's very interesting in a tear down the boxes sort of way.

 

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Like.  I have grandkids ranging in age from 3 to 27.  I wonder if I'll have great grandkids.  My adult grandsons' girlfriends think babies are "disgusting".  I hope many others in their generation feel differently.

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 12:59 PM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> > wrote:

This is all so apropos of my quest to provide "elder advice" to my children (40-somethings), nieces/nephews (30-somethings), and grandchildren (5, 12)... I know (most) everything I experienced/learned a half-century ago is only marginally relevant as most of what my parents/grandparents tried to pack me up were both sage and ill-advised at the same time...  

I'll be passing this down a generation or two...

 

 

On 6/16/24 9:35 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

Interesting post on hackernews today.  Michael Levin is arguing that a video puzzle game, Baba Is You (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Is_You or https://hempuli.com/baba/), is good preparation for working in his lab. 

 

What’s cool about this puzzle game (besides the fact that it’s challenging and fun) is that it gets you to break a number of mental categories and think more continuously and fluidly about topics relevant to the understanding of life and mind. Among other things, it dissolves barriers between data and algorithm, between a cognitive system and its contents, and gets you to think differently. People often ask me what kind of preparation they need to join our lab; I think I’ll put this game on that list. It’s a good introduction to the relevant mental flexibility, especially given our latest directions <https://drmichaellevin.org/research/newdirections.html> . Hofstadter’s incredible, classic GEB <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach>  is another such.

 

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