Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke

talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"

#biology #evolution #learning #cognition

Up now, Simon Laughlin

https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/

starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.

So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.

Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆

#neuroscience #evolution #biology

A bit further on, the author explains how to start your own "network state";

"Found a startup society. This is simply an online community with aspirations of something greater. Anyone can found one, just like anyone can found a company or cryptocurrency. And the founder’s legitimacy comes from whether people opt to follow them."

#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022

https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-thousand-words

That's not a state of any kind, it's a cult.

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@strypey
Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF