Personal notes of Matt Brown (mbrown02 at alum.mit.edu)

5th May 2013

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Emergent Causal Powers.

How thermodynamic work powers teleodynamic work. And why teleodynamic work is more efficient in the end.

(apologies for the photos, it was a sunny day!)

20th April 2013

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Background history of why scientific exploration of Emergence has been stunted for so long.

24th March 2013

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Some important notes from Von Neumann’s “The Computer and the Brain”.

7th March 2013

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Computation on the edge of chaos

24th February 2013

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How can morphodynamic constraints do work?—Teleodynamic Work!  

How can morphodynamic constraints do work?—Teleodynamic Work!  

31st January 2013

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Apologies for so much text.

This shows how neural spiking corresponds to reconnecting signal i/o connections via evolution and phase-space exploration

14th January 2013

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the interplay and behavior of positive and negative feedback is often misunderstood, as is much of cybernetics.

15th November 2012

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Quantum Gravity, and why Time is only a side-effect of Causality

9th November 2012

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“mirror” life

15th October 2012

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From the founder of Theoretical Biology (note: pre-DNA), his thoughts on initial conditions, hysteresis, and the organics’ tendencies toward “continually higher complication” 

Dated, but interesting 

14th October 2012

Photoset reblogged from FivesAndSevens with 22,023 notes

Also a great visualization for how to combine smaller dimensions into higher

Tagged: giftruth

Source: infinity-imagined

7th October 2012

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modeling complex systems

29th September 2012

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Feedback and Synchrony

27th September 2012

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streambeds on mars!

8th September 2012

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Ovid (about Lucretius): Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies (“the verses of the sublime Lucretius will perish only when a day will bring the end of the world”)

Ovid (about Lucretius)Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies (“the verses of the sublime Lucretius will perish only when a day will bring the end of the world”)