Learn to innovate creatively as a team by combining innovation praxis shaped by cutting-edge biological research and facilitated by biologists and expert creative collaborators in this key workshop for companies and innovation teams. Cutting-edge biology suggests that the way creative products are made in the creative industries such as film and music mirrors the way that cells in your body learn to adapt and interact. Turing Meta offers the opportunity to leverage this cutti

Stance Sketch, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Download timestamped PDF for citation Managing risk, both opportunity and adversity is about optimising for both for what you can produce now, and what the future may require, and this can look messy. In biology, this is about producing the optimal mixture of both finished products, and also optimising their parts for use in different future products the organism may expect to need. In a sense, this is similar to a

Timestamped PDF for download and citation: Untitled, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Introduction In this article I will present several different pieces of evidence that point towards the idea that the human mind is the product of the brain encoding information cryptographically . I will argue that this means that cryptographic capacity is synonymous with extreme algorithm flexibility . In other words, the cryptographic encoding of an algorithm is also just a

PDF with timestamp certificate for download and citation. Introduction Searle’s Chinese Room is a thought experiment which is supposed to prime our intuition against the possibility that the brain is simply some type of computer. It has a long history. First published in 1980, it came to my awareness only in the 1990s, when it was then mainly being discussed in the context of progress in things like early neural networks and whether such ‘sub-symbolic’ architectures made Sear

This post is to provide access to a PDF which summarises a presentation I recently gave to the the Rationality Vienna group. I really enjoyed the discussion afterwards, and the opportunity to present the latest version of my ideas and work. In the presentation is a, hopefully, intuitive summary of the ideas that biological systems manage risk differently, and I also delve more into the relationship between this and computer theory. Specifically, I look at much more detail int

This post is to present access to a PDF describing a theory related to meta-modularity, my main argument for how risk is managed in biological systems. Label theory is a way to understand intuitively the potential value of 'cross-talk' in a system. The signalling systems and the gene regulatory systems in biological systems like the cells and the cell signalling in the human organism are full of cross-talk. This is the process whereby one signalling system interacts with a s

Timestamped PDF for download and citation In The 2nd Invisible Hand I argued that Nature may be exploiting other options around growth to control problems such as pollution and exhaustion of resources from over-exploitation. One interesting example of this may be the courtship of flamingos, whose complexity I argue is a cryptographic effect for the flamingos themselves, to navigate a complex process that limits the ability of flamingos to efficiently reproduce, so protecting

Timestamped PDF for Download and Citation I have spent some considerable time working on specifically how we can learn from cutting-edge biology to create a real, more complete science for how to better manage risk and develop our economic theory to actually face the challenges we have today. People have argued from a non-economics background that energy use ‘simply’ needs to be integrated properly into economic allocation decisions, but how to do this is left unsaid. Looking

The title image looks at a three way game involving the idea of triadic closure. This is a theory from graphs that demonstrates the idea that interesting interactions can be 3-way not simply 2-way. In standard teaching of game theory we model the simplest possible games of cooperation as games in which there are only two players. While we do talk about one player games, these types of games are those in which one player makes all decisions, and so there is no conception that

As a result of the research, described in my book "On the Origin of Risk", I am developing a new theory of organisms based on the distinctive way that they manage risk compared to typical human designed solutions. Central to this effort, I hypothesise a key difference between the concepts of 'mechanism' and 'organism' which can be defined scientifically, that is mathematically, by a certain concept of risk. Here is a simple thought experiment, which contains the essence of

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I recently gave a tallk on how to leverage cutting-edge biology to solve organisational problems with a focus on software teams and...

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It was a real pleasure to give this short talk at the inaugural MDENet Symposium. I spoke about how 'agentless agency' as a concept can...

Here's a monograph I've written about the concept of natural search, explained in the everyday terms of economics examples, but also with...