Author, *Behavior and Culture in One Dimension*; Founder, GenomeWeb, WatersTechnology, FX-Markets; Lichenologist, Rutgers CHRB & DEENR; Fan of Howard Pattee
Lawrence Township, NJ
Joined February 2009
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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.
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)?
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@anilkseth @KarlFristonNews @Philip_Goff @drmichaellevin @MillerLabMIT @MiTiBennett @Mark_Solms @Nature @NatureNeuro @IAI_TV
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
Dennis P Waters retweeted
#CCS2026 early-bird registration deadline tomorrow!!
ccs26.cssociety.org/
@ConfCompSys @Po_CSS @CompSysSoc @cssusne @CssItaly @BinghamtonCoCo
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
Dennis P Waters retweeted
[2607.13560] Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI arxiv.org/abs/2607.13560
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.
Dennis P Waters retweeted
Most of molecular biology treats the cell as a computer: a program stored in DNA, executed by proteins.
Pattee saw something else: an architecture of symbols and readers that cannot be collapsed into physics without losing the meaning. (1/2)
Dennis P Waters retweeted
5/Prof. @drmichaellevin (@TuftsUniversity) studies how cognition scales from cells to tissues, organisms and synthetic living forms (e.g., his famous xenobots), using bioelectricity to understand pattern regulation, regeneration and diverse intelligence.
drmichaellevin.org/
Dennis P Waters retweeted
Do you love nature? Then you'll love Binghamton! Check out these outdoor spots in upstate New York, all less than a 30-minute drive from #CCS2026!
They're all perfect for hiking 🥾, biking 🚵, camping 🏕️… you name it! Trust us, the fall scenery will take your breath away. 😉🍁
Dennis P Waters retweeted
In his new book, Romain Brette pushes back against theories that describe the brain as a “biological computer.” In this excerpt, he challenges equating brain evolution with programming, and the universality of neural network models.
thetransmitter.org/theoretic…
Dennis P Waters retweeted
@dpwaters "Behavior and Culture in One Dimension" (2021) is underrated. It helps show how behavior, normativity, and culture cannot be flattened to state transitions without losing the organism-environment unity that makes them intelligible. An excellent intro to biosemiotics!/9
Dennis P Waters retweeted
Journey with writer @laxmevy and a team of researchers through the Arctic tundra as they sample some of Earth’s rarest and most restricted fungal species — underground wisps that govern life aboveground. This story was supported by @PulitzerCenter. quantamagazine.org/an-arctic…
Dennis P Waters retweeted
RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age.
Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.
Dennis P Waters retweeted
Behold the inner channel of the nuclear pore complex in all its messy glory. New high-def microscopy is revealing its intricacies like never before. @yasemin_sap reports: quantamagazine.org/disorder-…
Dennis P Waters retweeted
A comprehensive survey of genome language models in bioinformatics
academic.oup.com/bib/article…
Dennis P Waters retweeted
If you exclude robotics from the question, and only focus on current AI models, then the point might be made. But robotics is precisely where Moravec's paradox hits the hardest. Some of the last people that will (if ever) lose their jobs to robots are farm field workers. That's were the paradox really needs exploring.
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New paper led by @amahury0 published in JRS Interface:
"Closing the loop: how semantic closure enables open-ended evolution?"
royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
Dennis P Waters retweeted
New preprint: "The Cultural Ecology of Social Media"
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mu…
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Dennis P Waters retweeted
"misinformation is widespread in biological systems spanning levels of organization, and [...] is probably an inevitable property that inherits from fundamental constraints on biological communication systems, rather than a pathology" royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
