Bridle: The AIs we’re making do have those interfaces with the world — they’re just incredibly narrow. And they’re set and directed by humans to such a degree that artificial intelligence can only ever be a subset of human intelligence. It lacks any other kind of access to the world. And if intelligence is, as I tend to believe, an emergent... See more

In technomorphic positions, life and intelligence are treated as “substrate-indifferent,” as formally identical in function regardless of the body in which they are instantiated. Biomimesis, by contrast, assumes that such functions are “substrate-bound,” that is, the exclusive product of a specific biological embodiment: substrates serve as hosts... See more

My current view is that we’ve discovered a kind of natural universal memory phenomenon that’s a property of all matter, living and non-living. A natural tendency of information to get tangled up with space, time, and matter that allows it to become experientially self-reporting. It’s weird to think of memory outside of the context of living beings... See more