Chris Fields
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basal cognition, emergent spacetime, active inference - chrisfieldsresearch.com
Here is a run down of techniques probably being used everywhere to corrupt or co-opt local governments.
@progressnownm.bsky.social · 3w agoHow do wealthy corporations and executives divide us? Project Jupiter shows the risk of hidden negotiations, revolving doors, and paid PR campaigns used to turn New Mexicans against each other: progressnownm.org/the-oracle-...
New #paper: rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/organ... Mostly unaltered conversation among some great people on the definitions of life.
What consciousness and love have in common ? Consciousness is the work or making relationships Beautiful proposal by Alva Noe - moving away from the usual consciousness theories 😎🌟
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Legal Action Against the United States and Its Private ICE Prison Contractors in Wake of Houston Murder open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Legal Action Against the United States and Its Private ICE Prison Contractors in Wake of Houston Murder
She is David. Trump's authoritarian, xenophobic, racist regime is Goliath. Who are you rooting for?
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What is life? Final version is out @blaiseaguera.bsky.social Reed Bender, Karina Kofman link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪
What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological Theory
The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...
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Peter Scholze (left) and Dustin Clausen are undertaking an ambitious project to generate an entire new category of mathematical objects. Their work retains all of the best parts of topological spaces — without the drawbacks. www.quantamagazine.org/two-research...
Ever wanted to talk to a gene regulatory network? Ever wonder what they could do in a different context, embodiment, space? New preprint - part of our approach for developing ways to talk to cells, organs, and much much weirder agents: @yanbozhang123.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2605.16321 🧪
Language Game: Talking to Non-Human Systems
Language carries thought and coordination among humans but rarely reaches further along the spectrum of diverse intelligence. Yet non-neural systems -- from gene regulatory networks and microbial cons...
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New #preprint, @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2605.06746 "The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents" 🧪
The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents
A hallmark of life on Earth is the ability of agents to exert causal power and be drivers of subsequent events. This is key to cognition at all scales. Causal emergence, measuring the degree to which ...
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Final forms of 3 new papers! #consciousness #selforganization #cognition #economics and more 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...
Brains and where else? Mapping theories of consciousness to unconventional embodiments
Abstract. It is assumed that a useful theory of consciousness (ToC) will explain why consciousness is associated with brains. However, the findings of evol
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A discussion with Anthony Weiss and @chrisfields38.bsky.social on the relationship between the physical energy consumption and Variational Free Energy, as applied to mental health, biology, and social systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnQ... #FEP #energy #thermodynamics #psychiatry
Conversation With Anthony Weiss and Chris Fields
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Is it not obvious that **humans** are the problem here? It is humans who want to use AI for mass surveillance. Humans that want to dominate their competitors. Humans who can think of nothing but money. As Walt Kelly said, we have met the enemy, and he (of course, he) is us.
Nature@nature.com · 4mo agoResearchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks go.nature.com/4vGQxkj
Mike Johnson was "taken aback" by the Pope commenting on war and advocating for peace, but not by Trump cosplaying as Jesus. You can't make this stuff up.
The Contrarian@contrariannews.org · 4mo ago"The White House assumes angered Christians will soon forget the latest outrage, but at least for a moment, some MAGA Republicans (especially Catholics) can recognize Trump is an unhinged narcissist exploiting their religious beliefs."
Let's all return to a medieval lifestyle! That's what Big Daddy wants.
The Contrarian@contrariannews.org · 4mo ago"In a drop considered “extraordinary” by statisticians, the number of babies born to mothers between the ages of 15 and 19 fell by 7 percent in 2025."
What about genes associated with neurocognitive variants, like psychopathy as a correlate of political power? Look at the picture - this kind of backbreaking work was not what humans as a species signed up for, until a variant arose that could make the rest of us do it.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 4mo agoThe adoption of agriculture kicked off a very active period in human evolution, geneticists argue in a new @nature.com study. “Everything has changed about the way we live," says @harvard.edu geneticist Ali Akbari, "and that’s reflected in our genome and how it’s trying to catch up.” @science.org
ICE wins another award for maniacal cruelty: www.bbc.com/news/article...
French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love
The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse told French media he is worried for his mother's frail health as she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre.
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So Orban was using Hungarian state money to fund the US Conservative Political Action Conference. Orban called himself Putin's "mouse." I suppose that makes CPAC Putin's mouse too. Putin's MAGA mouse. Lovely. uk.news.yahoo.com/newly-electe...
Newly-Elected Hungarian PM Says Orbán Was Paying CPAC, Calls It a ‘Crime’ That ‘Will Have to Be Investigated’
Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect, announced that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government had been paying CPAC, but he would put an immediate end to that -- and even went so f...
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Allen Weh is a former NM GOP Chair, US Senate candidate, and billionaire. He gave more than $204K to Trump’s re-election in 2024, shortly before receiving a no bid ICE contract: progressnownm.org/meet-the-nm...
Meet the NM Republican insider cashing in on ICE contracts and private prison ties (UPDATED)
In 2025, CSI Aviation went from $364 million to $1.2 billion in revenue, making it the #1 ICE contractor, $500M ahead of private prison operator GEO Group.
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After so many serious discussions about this paradox with physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers, I can’t help but find this cartoon absolutely hilarious.
“Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.”
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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New #preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.01932 "BraiNCA: brain-inspired neural cellular automata and applications to morphogenesis and motor control" @bhartl.bsky.social and Leo Pio-Lopez:
BraiNCA: brain-inspired neural cellular automata and applications to morphogenesis and motor control
Most of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account ...
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Ask yourself why Donald Trump doesn't want you to vote: He doesn't want to be held accountable for raising prices, for an illegal war, or for hiding the Epstein files. New Mexico will always fight for free and fair elections – and make sure every person who is eligible can vote.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: President Trump signs an order directing the creation of a national eligible voter list, a move expected to face swift legal challenges.
alisav.substack.com Well-documented investigative reporting on Epstein's Zorro Ranch, right down the road from where I used to live in Galisteo, NM.
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www.bbc.com/news/article... What about those other addictive delusions, that make people mistrust each other and themselves, that have been on the market for thousands of years?
Silicon Valley reeling from social media addiction trial verdict
The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.
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Artificial intelligence models overly affirm and validate users, even when users propose harmful or illegal actions, a new Science study finds. Learn about that research and more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4syHTSM
In a world full of bad news, New Mexico is setting a different standard. But accountability doesn’t stop here. Our kids are facing new and evolving threats. It’s on us to be intentional, and ready to act, and to hold billionaires and corporations accountable. That’s why I’m running for Governor.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: A New Mexico jury finds Meta violated a state law in failing to disclose the risks of its platforms to children's mental health.
What would a nervous system look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? How would #Xenobots look & act, and what their transcriptome would be, with neurons? advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Engineered Living Systems With Self‐Organizing Neural Networks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression
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A recording of a recent talk at McGill, The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8me...
CMB Seminar 2026 | Tolchinsky : "Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization..."
YouTube video by Transcultural Psychiatry
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