Lectures
Talks and recordings.
Talks and conversations by the scientists the programme builds on, and my own walk-throughs as they get recorded.
April 18, 2026·66 minAilashkersky's Backyard — The Mysterious Number That Rules the Universe (2026)
A popular walk-through of fractals and the Feigenbaum constant: Mandelbrot, Julia, the universal constants of chaos, and the fractal geometry of nature from biology to cosmology.
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February 9, 2026·115 minVitaly Vanchurin — The Universe as a Learning Network (TOE, 2026)
Vanchurin in conversation with Curt Jaimungal: how quantum mechanics and gravity emerge from the 'world as neural network' model, what an observer is, and how the microscopic degrees of freedom of such a universe are organised.
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February 6, 2025·90 minGiulio Tononi — IIT 4.0: Consciousness as Structure (2025)
Tononi presents the latest version of Integrated Information Theory: consciousness as an intrinsically defined cause-effect structure, with Φ as its quantitative measure.
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September 18, 2024·46 minMichael Levin — The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence (2024)
Levin on how bioelectric patterns carry the memory of form and guide morphogenesis — cells 'know' the target geometry before the corresponding genes are activated.
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September 27, 2020·54 minVitaly Vanchurin — The World as a Neural Network (EISM, 2020)
A walk-through of the paper itself: Vanchurin goes through the model — neurons as microscopic degrees of freedom, with quantum mechanics and general relativity as its limits.
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