Author, *Behavior and Culture in One Dimension*; Founder, GenomeWeb.com, WatersTechnology.com, FX-Markets.com; Lichenologist, Rutgers CHRB & DEENR; Patteeist
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Howard Pattee will celebrate his 100th birthday in October, and a group of his collaborators and former students will mark the occasion with a one-day symposium at Binghamton University on October 15th. Attend in person or virtually.
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
Open-endedness has been a central problem in Artificial Life for decades. Now @arcprize says ARC-AGI-4 will benchmark "autonomous open-ended innovation." Great. But how do you benchmark a property whose whole point is continuous novelty and never-ending invention?/1 🧵👇
ARC-AGI-4 will be a benchmark for autonomous open-ended innovation. It will continue our commitment to open-source, giving the research community a shared target for progress that benefits all of humanity.
Despite rapid model progress, humans still significantly outperform AI at open-ended invention. This is the meta-skill that unlocks progress across every field of technology.
Advanced AI capable of scientific innovation will lead to tremendous new technology, knowledge, and understanding. This is a positive-sum future. We are deeply committed to advancing it.
Open source is the foundation for that progress.
The knowledge behind frontier AI, not just the technology itself, should be broadly distributed among researchers, academics, and organizations. Any coordinated effort by the AI industry to reduce openness or concentrate access to frontier AI would undermine that positive-sum future. We are committed to advancing a future where everyone can contribute to and benefit from AI progress.
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
What if consciousness is necessarily related to mortality of the body?
The frantic race for immortality and conscious AI may be on the wrong track
Preprint here : osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gh…
Other papers in the pipeline - stay tuned 😎🙏
Thank you Tony for having me !
The Montreal Review's Mind Series!
The excellent @AnnaCiaunica has a forthcoming piece for the Montreal Review titled What is consciousness, and why do humans have it but AI cannot?
Is a primary reason that AI cannot be conscious simply due to the overlooked differences regarding qualitative (human) information processing vs. quantitative information processing (AI)?
Snippet below:
@anilkseth @KarlFristonNews @Philip_Goff @drmichaellevin @MillerLabMIT @MiTiBennett @Mark_Solms @Nature @NatureNeuro @IAI_TV
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Remembering staff and delegates at the Risk Waters Financial Technology Congress at Windows on the World, who perished this day in 2001. May their memories be a blessing. The following was published in 2021. risk.net/comment/7869951/911…
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Japewiella dollypartoniana, a New Widespread Lichen in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern North America – The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society share.google/OBwPck3r4X7EkDb…
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Speaking at the Howard Pattee Centennial:
Peter Cariani was Howard Pattee’s PhD student in the 1980s. His dissertation, “On the Design of Devices with Emergent Semantic Functions,” remains a touchstone in robotics and embodied cognition. Having taught at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, Peter is now Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music.
Attend the “Commemorating Pattee's Legacy” symposium in person or virtually on October 15th at Binghamton University. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
We share very sad news that a forefather of the current SSIE School, Dr. Howard Pattee, has passed. All are welcome to join Dr. Howard H. Pattee’s Centennial at the upcoming #CCS2026 to reflect as we fondly remember his many positive impacts. #BingPride bit.ly/4xOOvyL
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
#CCS2026 early-bird registration deadline tomorrow!!
ccs26.cssociety.org/
@ConfCompSys @Po_CSS @CompSysSoc @cssusne @CssItaly @BinghamtonCoCo
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
#ALIFE2026 award ceremony -- @binghamtonu 's Systems Science members also receive multiple awards!!
We are particularly glad to see the late Howard Pattee and his work recognized by the ALife community
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Howard H. Pattee died on July 29th, two months shy of his 100th birthday. A group of his collaborators and former students will celebrate his life and work with a one-day symposium at Binghamton University on October 15th. Attend the “Commemorating Pattee's Legacy” symposium in person or virtually. Early bird registration thru August 20th (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Speaking at the Howard Pattee Centennial:
Kalevi Kull is Professor of Biosemiotics at the University of Tartu and president of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. He became an admirer of Pattee after reading the volumes of Towards a Theoretical Biology. They began a correspondence in 1999, when Kull was editing a special issue of Semiotica on Jakob Uexküll. Kull met Pattee in 2008, and published part of their dialog as "A biosemiotic conversation: Between physics and semiotics," in Sign Systems Studies.
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Attend the “Commemorating Pattee's Legacy” symposium in person or virtually on October 15th at Binghamton University. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
[2607.13560] Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI arxiv.org/abs/2607.13560
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Speaking at the Howard Pattee Centennial:
Claudia Carello is professor emerita at the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA) at the University of Connecticut and, briefly, was a faculty member at Binghamton University. A leader of the Ecological Psychology movement, she and her colleagues engaged with Howard Pattee over several decades, and CESPA devoted one of its annual Iberall Lectures to Pattee. His important "Cell Psychology" paper was a response to the Ecological Psychologists.
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Attend the “Commemorating Pattee's Legacy” symposium in person or virtually on October 15th at Binghamton University. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Attend the “Commemorating Pattee's Legacy” symposium in person or virtually on October 15th at Binghamton University. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Speaking at the Howard Pattee Centennial:
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi is a Professor at the University of Warsaw, where she works in the Human Interactivity and Language Lab (@uw_hill). With Pattee, she co-edited Laws, Language, and Life, the main book-length entry point into Pattee's work. She has continued to develop Patteean themes in her own research, especially complementarity and replicable constraints in language and cognition.
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Attend the Commemorating Pattee's Legacy symposium in person or virtually on October 15th at Binghamton University. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
Howard Pattee will celebrate his 100th birthday in October, and a group of his collaborators and former students will mark the occasion with a one-day symposium at Binghamton University on October 15th. Attend in person or virtually.
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Howard Pattee will celebrate his 100th birthday in October, and a group of his collaborators and former students will mark the occasion with a one-day symposium at Binghamton University on October 15th. Attend in person or virtually.
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Organized by @dpwaters, @LuisMateusRocha, @amahury0, @gmusser. Confirmed speakers: sites.google.com/binghamton.…. Registration (@ConfCompSys): ccs26.cssociety.org/registra…
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