It’s at the intersection of philosophy, ML, neuroscience, and sleep science.

If you work in or are interested in one of these topics, let’s chat!

Open Questions:

• What are some examples of neuroscience informing computer science?
• Are there any disorders that people have that don’t have REM sleep? Can we look at learning outcomes for those people?
• Are there any natural neural networks that don’t require any sleep?
• Is our DNA the first set of training data that we’ve evolved to have passed down to us?

Reading list:

• [ ] The hidden lives of trees
  • Goal: Identify parallels and differences between sparser, slower data exchange networks (mycelium networks) that trees use to communicate with one another
• [ ] Breaking the Habit of being yourself
• [ ] Mind to Matter
• [ ] Superintelligence
• [x] Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea…
• [x] Why We Sleep
• [x] The taboo against knowing who we are - alan watts