Cybernetics & Complex Systems Dinner
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About Event
DETAILS ➡️:
• Join us for a fully-covered private dinner in Waterloo to discuss the future of programmable biology and cognition from a cybernetics and complex systems perspective.
• We'll be talking about: Meta-Stability and the Brain, World Properties Without World Models, Coordination Dynamics, Michael Levin's TAME, Haken's Synergetics, Non-Equilibrium Physics, Infohazards and Biological Prompts, and much more.
• Supported by Ekkolapto.org.
• Hosted by Addy Cha (Founder @ Ekkolapto.org, O'Shaughnessy Ventures 2025 Grantee, FAU Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab/Center for Complex Systems).
• Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, Frontier Tower in SF, DC/Maryland, NYC, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo.
📍WHERE: Waterloo
🗓️ WHEN: Thursday March 19, 7PM to 9PM EDT
PREVIOUS EVENTS 📸:
• 2024 Longevity & Unconventional Computing Research Hackathon at MIT Media Lab, featuring Stephen Wolfram, David Sinclair, Curt Jaimungal, and more: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5dPSW_KkniuHpoLwlzkYcxhxn50Mn0T
• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ekkolapto3
• Polymath Salon at UT Austin with Professor Scott Aaronson on the Philosophy of Computational Complexity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OST1DjD08Hg
• Polymath Salon at University of Toronto with Michael Levin, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, and Elan Barenholtz on the Binding Problem and Platonic Spaces: https://youtu.be/0BVM0UC28nY
Things to know
Location
Wildcraft Grill + Bar
Waterloo
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