The nature of primary consciousness. A new synthesis

TE Feinberg, J Mallatt - Consciousness and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
While the philosophical puzzles about “life” that once confounded biology have all been
solved by science, much of the “mystery of consciousness” remains unsolved due to multiple …

Living systems are smarter bots: Slime mold semiosis versus AI symbol manipulation

VN Alexander, JA Bacigalupi, ÒC Garcia - Biosystems, 2021 - Elsevier
Although machines may be good at mimicking, they are not currently able, as organisms are,
to act creatively. We offer an understanding of the emergent qualities of biological sign …

[PDF][PDF] Author's Accepted Manuscript

Y Wang, Z Yang, F Zhang - J. Memb. Sci. https://doi. org/10.1016/j …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Open source projects leverage a large number of people to review products and improve
code quality. Differences among participants are inevitable and important to this …

Self‐Reinforcing Cycles and Mistakes: The Emergence of Subjective Meaning

VN Alexander - Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this chapter, I investigate how subjectivity arises in living systems, both as a consequence
of memory—the experience‐dependent modification of signal pathways or internal sensing …

Fluid biosemiotic mechanisms underlie subconscious habits

VN Alexander, V Grimes - Biosemiotics, 2017 - Springer
Although research into the biosemiotic mechanisms underlying the purposeful behavior of
brainless living systems is extensive, researchers have not adequately described …

AI, stereotyping on steroids and Alan Turing's biological turn

VN Alexander - The democratization of artificial intelligence: Net …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) designers try to mimic human brain capabilities with “self-learning”
neural networks trained by crowd-sourced selection processes or other “unsupervised” …

Siri Fails the Turing Test: Computation, Biosemiosis, and Artificial Life

VN Alexander - Recherches sémiotiques, 2019 - erudit.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) designers try to mimic human brain capabilities with “self-learning”
neural networks trained by selection processes. Yet decades on, AI still fails the Turing Test …

Electroencephalographic complexity and decreased randomness in drug-naive obsessive-compulsive patients

S Tan, S Aydin - DUSUNEN ADAM-JOURNAL OF …, 2017 - avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr
https://dusunenadamdergisi. org/storage/upload/pdfs/1585638731-en. pdfObjective: Studies
investigating the complexity in electroencephalography (EEG) in various neuropsychiatric …

Is Stress Quantum-Like?

JA de Barros, LG De Assis, P Bob - … , QI 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA …, 2017 - Springer
In this paper we examine two well-controlled experiments where order effects were shown
under stress. We show that for only one of those experiments the QQ equality of Wang and …

[引用][C] Consciousness and the Binding Problem in Neuroscience

C Creighton - 2016