Channel Title: Variable Minds Channel Description: Variable Minds intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. Hear from experts on cognition in humans, nonhumans and AI. Dive into the hard problem of consciousness and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). This channel also explores the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. I'm Andréa Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher, science and technology investigative journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers. My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. <video> How Intelligent Life Could Redefine Our Universe Description: Solving the greatest mysteries of the universe may hinge on deciphering intelligence—be it human, artificial, or extraterrestrial. Harvard astrophysicist and UAP/UFO field investigator, Avi Loeb, discusses an approaching future where we co-exist with super intelligent AI and a possible "cosmic neighbor" with the potential to enlighten us or conquer us. This video includes insights from developmental synthetic biologist Michael Levin (creator of Xenobots, the first AI designed bio-robots) and complexity scientists and origins of life researchers Stuart Kauffman and Joana Xavier, whose work could change our definition of "lyfe." We dig into the biases, barriers and blindspots in science and academia that hold back progress, and the mindsets that catalyze scientific revolutions. ▶️ Read my article on Forbes that also includes insights from Nobel laureate Adam Riess: https://rebrand.ly/c928w3o ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by an overly tired human (please forgive me if a typo slips through) ___________________ ▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries. Podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> Science Is Reconsidering Evolution Description: Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene faces a formidable challenge as biophysicist Denis Noble makes a case for evolution driven by purpose, intention and a collective intelligence of organisms. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com https://rb.gy/db2ahv ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe: https://rb.gy/qqo0i For more information and research discussed in the video and article : 📌 Scientific Journal Nature: Does Evolutionary Theory Need A Rethink? (2014) co-written by 15 scientists in the field: “The number of biologists calling for change in how evolution is conceptualized is growing rapidly.” https://rb.gy/t6y99w 📌 The Royal Society: New Trends In Evolutionary Biology: Biological, Philosophical And Social Science Perspectives (2017) https://rb.gy/c2lkss 📌 Scientific Journal of Physiology Editorial on THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EVOLUTION (2024) co-edited with Noble and Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic: https://rb.gy/m45isa 📌 How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (2023), by Philip Ball, former editor of the journal Nature: “Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation.” https://rb.gy/90jnwk 📌 MIT Press: Evolution “On Purpose” (2023) co-written by Noble and 5 other scientists https://rb.gy/2d9il7 📌 The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions (2022) published in the scientific journal Life, co-written by 25 Origins of Life (abiogenesis) researchers https://rb.gy/h12j9e 📌 Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity by Denis Noble’s (2017): https://rb.gy/beyp8s 📌 Scientific Journal BMJ Medicine: Study on the poor performance of polygenic risk scores (2023): https://rb.gy/ko5f2v 📌 Scientific Journal Nature: Mutation bias study (2022): https://rb.gy/ccku9k 📌 The 2022 Noble/Dawkins IAI debate: https://rb.gy/sdonx0 @TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas‬ ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ My articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> 157 Scientists Demand An Investigation Description: Consciousness scientists Jonathan Mason on the open letter urging the acceleration of consciousness research, a reaction to break-neck AI developments. Are these AI tools? Prediction machines? And are we all that different from a word calculator? As we race towards AGI and deepfakes blow through Turing tests, hear about the wild ways that advances in large language models like chatGPT could change everything if AI becomes conscious. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com https://rb.gy/skdim ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out more of my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> Roger Penrose's Mind-Bending Theory of Reality Description: Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose on his Orch OR theory of consciousness that could change what we know about time, the universe and reality, by incorporating the physics of consciousness. Explore mind blowing facts about our reality that show consciousness in quantum mechanics. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com https://rb.gy/s5uzf ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe: https://rb.gy/qqo0i This is a distillation of approximately 27 hours of talks from October 2022 - October 2023. This video was edited so that viewers without math or physics backgrounds could understand these ideas. Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) is the Penrose-Hameroff theory of consciousness based on quantum physics. If you have any questions, please leave a comment to be considered for inclusion in a follow-up interview. Please include a question mark in your questions (that's what I'll filter for). Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> I Discovered The Truth About AI Unpredictability Description: Computer Scientist, Kentaro Toyama, explains simple reason that predicting AI decisions will always be out of reach and the event that might save us from AI existential threat. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com: https://rb.gy/vt7m6 ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> Neuroscientist Builds AI, Says They Think and Understand Description: An interview with neuroscientist and computer scientist, AI expert, Blake Richards. Working in Geoffrey Hinton's lab (known as the 'Godfather of AI'), Richards developed expertise that has put him at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field. Richards talks about key differences between AI and human minds and goals, and the challenge of understanding and predicting both AI and Human decisions. This leads to the human and AI alignment problem: how to get both humans and AI to align with "human values." He also talks about how AI works better when it isn't modeled after human biology. We discuss the future of work, and the workforce transformation currently underway, open versus Big Tech and whether scientists can truly ever know if AI has become conscious, along with other AI news. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com https://rb.gy/cohau ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> Sudden Emergence or Mirage? Scientist Reveals Findings Description: An interview with computer scientist and AI researcher Rylan Schaeffer about his time as an intern at Google DeepMind and his current research challenging claims of sharp and unpredictable emergent abilities in AI large language models (LLMs). We talk about ChatGPT, interpretable machine learning, hierarchical reinforcement learning and surprising things that happen when you let intelligent machines figure out how their world works without giving them any clues. Stay tuned until the end when we explore how everyday people like you and me might hypothetically stop the breakneck progress of AI in order to spare enough time to solve the AI safety and AI alignment problem. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com: https://rb.gy/0vdng ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out more of my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc ___________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video> <video> AI thinks in different dimensions Description: Amanda Stent is the Director of Colby College’s Davis Institute for AI, the first AI institute at a Liberal Arts college in the United States. We talk about interpretable AI and why humans are incapable of understanding multidimensional AI concepts. We also discuss AI alignment, alien intelligence, AI sentience, equitable AI, transparency, copyright, and prompt engineering as a fundamental curricula for positive societal impact. Stent breaks down the human priorities that have been built into AI and what those priorities might look like if, say, dogs had invented AI. ▶️ Read the article on Forbes.com: https://rb.gy/vt7m6 ▶️ Buy me a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/andreamorris ▶️ Subscribe here: https://rb.gy/qqo0i Subtitles [CC] have been proofread by a human :) Interview edited for time. Integrity of expert commentary respected and preserved. ___________________ ▶️ Check out my articles on Forbes: https://rb.gy/pstfz ▶️ My book “The Science of On-Camera Acting: with commentary by Dr. Paul Ekman” https://rb.gy/p8iwc _________________ I'm Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes. Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries, or podumentaries. This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT). I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning. </video>

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Variable Minds intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. Hear from experts on cognition in humans, nonhumans and AI. Dive into the hard problem of consciousness and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT).

This channel also explores the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.

I'm Andréa Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher, science and technology investigative journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers. My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.

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