Jack Roycroft-Sherry

Damian Kelty-Stephen is a psychologist focused on understanding complex behaviors such as movement, language, and perception. Traditional cognitive science often views organisms as having a centralized controller in the brain to govern behavior. But what if we could better understand organisms as collective intelligences, exhibiting behaviors we typically associate with swarm organisms, like bees? In this episode, we discuss intelligence without a central controller and intelligence beyond brains. We explore how complex behaviors might be explained without centralized control systems. We also touch on the importance of neurons, the intelligence of cells, and compare biological with technological intelligence. Find Damian's Work: A great lecture related to this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P89WTmNBjBk&t=1032s Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/foovian/ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:22 Explaining the complexity of movement 05:03 Cognition without a central controller 13:15 Intelligence beyond brains 21:48 Biological vs. technological intelligence 28:19 Multifractal social psychology 38:52 Measuring multifractality 49:16 Nations as collective intelligences 50:57 Understanding speech

Brett Andersen is a PhD student studying evolutionary psychology. We discuss how different models of cognition are increasingly being bridged together and how they relate to our world today. This is giving us the tools to appreciate the place of science and mythology in our culture, as well as helping to develop scientific accounts of meaning, mythology and God. READING AND EXTRA INFO Brett is a PHD student who is studying evolutionary psychology. His academic work focuses on autistic vs schizotypal spectrum. He has a Substack where is writing on topics such as our left hemisphere dominance as a culture, scientific account of mythology, and how we come to have morals and values. He recently wrote a paper with John Vervaeke bridging the relevance realisation theory of cognition with predictive processing which can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-022-09850-6#ref-CR31 He has a Substack where he writes on as host of topics, bridging together complexity theory, cognitive science, philosophy, science and mythology: https://brettandersen.substack.com/