Rob Russell

Rob Russell

@gtv840

I came, I saw, I took a photo.

Online in Eastern Australia

Joined Nov 1, 2022

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Mechanistic Interpretability: A Challenge Common to Both Artificial and Biological Intelligence - Kempner Institute

kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/research/deeper-learning/mechanistic-interpretability-a-challenge/

May 23, 2026

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The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Research: A Review of the Consensus App - PMC

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12318603/

May 23, 2026

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AI Consciousness Reconsidered: Evidence That It Does Exist

ai-consciousness.org/the-walls-are-coming-down-how-2024-2025-changed-the-ai-consciousness-conversation/

May 23, 2026

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Robert K Russell - Profile on Academia.edu

mq.academia.edu/RobertRussell

May 23, 2026

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Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500391

May 22, 2026

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Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant-like versus vowel-like calls - Scientific Reports

www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48165-7

May 22, 2026

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Language-like efficiency in whale communication

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads6014

May 22, 2026

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Are we really about to talk to whales?

theconversation.com/are-we-really-about-to-talk-to-whales-229778

May 22, 2026

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Multimodal communication and audience directedness in the greeting behaviour of semi-captive African savannah elephants - Communications Biology

www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06133-5

May 22, 2026

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Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations - Nature Communications

www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8

May 22, 2026

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The Architecture of Chaos in a Quiet Vibration Land

zenodo.org/records/20319326

May 21, 2026

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A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything - Nautilus

nautil.us/a-neuroscientists-theory-of-everything-237851

May 12, 2026

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Scale-Free Cognition (also called aiti opoiesis): cognition is not a brain-only phenomenon but exists on a continuum, from simple homeostatic feedback loops to abstract self-modelling. Each layer adds predictive capacity without discarding the layer beneath it - Bing

www.bing.com/search?q=Scale-Free+Cognition+(also+called+aiti%0D%0Aopoiesis)%3A+cognition+is+not+a+brain-only+phenomenon+but+exists+on+a+continuum%2C+from+simple%0D%0Ahomeostatic+feedback+loops+to+abstract+self-modelling.+Each+layer+adds+predictive+capacity+without%0D%0Adiscarding+the+layer+beneath+it&FORM=SSOINT&adppc=EDGEESS&PC=U531

May 7, 2026

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stanfrord free peer review - Bing

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May 7, 2026

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variational free energy (Friston, 2010) - Bing

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May 7, 2026

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Frontiers | Toward aitiopoietic cognition: bridging the evolutionary divide between biological and machine-learned causal systems

www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition/articles/10.3389/fcogn.2025.1618381/full

May 7, 2026

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the formal framework of Scale-Free Cognition (also called aitiopoiesis) - Bing

www.bing.com/search?q=the+formal+framework+of+Scale-Free%0D%0ACognition+(also+called+aitiopoiesis)&FORM=SSOINT&adppc=EDGEESS&PC=U531

May 7, 2026

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Neural Autopoiesis: Organizing Self-Boundaries by Stimulus Avoidance in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks

direct.mit.edu/artl/article-abstract/26/1/130/93271/Neural-Autopoiesis-Organizing-Self-Boundaries-by?redirectedFrom=fulltext

May 7, 2026

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A theory of cortical responses

royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article-abstract/360/1456/815/20657/A-theory-of-cortical-responses?redirectedFrom=fulltext

May 3, 2026

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Where do we store the memory in our brain (specific part)?

www.quora.com/Where-do-we-store-the-memory-in-our-brain-specific-part/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1?__filter__=20&__nsrc__=notif_page&__sncid__=73571364917&__snid3__=97794769535

May 2, 2026

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paper.pdf

rdi.berkeley.edu/peer-preservation/paper.pdf

Apr 30, 2026

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Knowledge as compressed information in living systems - Claude

claude.ai/chat/a4391738-8176-4bfa-9d15-ab3e9adb1399

Apr 22, 2026

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If all humans share the same underlying awareness, what exactly is the “individual self” made of?

www.quora.com/If-all-humans-share-the-same-underlying-awareness-what-exactly-is-the-individual-self-made-of/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Apr 16, 2026

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Are insects cold-blooded or warm-blooded?

www.quora.com/Are-insects-cold-blooded-or-warm-blooded/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1?__filter__=all&__nsrc__=notif_page&__sncid__=73141197832&__snid3__=97281543338

Apr 16, 2026

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How did the human know that he is recognizing something?

www.quora.com/How-did-the-human-know-that-he-is-recognizing-something/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Apr 16, 2026

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Can AI become self-aware? Could Terminator's Skynet happen?

www.quora.com/Can-AI-become-self-aware-Could-Terminators-Skynet-happen/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Apr 16, 2026

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If all humans share the same underlying awareness, what exactly is the “individual self” made of?

www.quora.com/If-all-humans-share-the-same-underlying-awareness-what-exactly-is-the-individual-self-made-of/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1?prompt_topic_bio=1

Apr 16, 2026

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Photorealism in AI illustration.

medium.com/@gtveloce116/photorealism-in-ai-illustration-1ea02995d0fc

Mar 24, 2026

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Why were the very earliest civilizations located in Asia and North Africa, despite humans originally coming from Sub-Saharan Africa?

www.quora.com/Why-were-the-very-earliest-civilizations-located-in-Asia-and-North-Africa-despite-humans-originally-coming-from-Sub-Saharan-Africa/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1?ch=10&oid=76875874&share=b8db21a5&srid=oQEs&target_type=answer

Oct 20, 2025

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Are nociceptors involved in our experience of emotional pain?

www.quora.com/Are-nociceptors-involved-in-our-experience-of-emotional-pain/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Oct 20, 2025

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Modern humans appeared 200,000; civilization 10,000; and advanced technology 500 years ago. Why no advancement for something like 190,000...

www.quora.com/Modern-humans-appeared-200-000-civilization-10-000-and-advanced-technology-500-years-ago-Why-no-advancement-for-something-like-190-000-years/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Oct 20, 2025

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Could artificial intelligence ever be truly sentient? Why or why not?

www.quora.com/Could-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-truly-sentient-Why-or-why-not/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Oct 10, 2025

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Sydney_Track_Cycling_History.pdf

shazbeige.com/pdf/Sydney_Track_Cycling_History.pdf

Sep 5, 2025

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Why do humans have the most needy and stressful offspring compared to all other animals?

www.quora.com/Why-do-humans-have-the-most-needy-and-stressful-offspring-compared-to-all-other-animals/answer/Robert-K-Russell-1

Sep 5, 2025

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Sydney's airports, aerodromes and airstrips

sydneypast.blogspot.com/2008/07/sydneys-airports-aerodromes-and.html

Sep 4, 2025

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Sydney's race tracks - bikes, cars - even horses

sydneypast.blogspot.com/2008/07/sydneys-race-tracks-bikes-cars-even.html

Sep 4, 2025

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Whalan Reserve (Mt Druitt) - another of Sydney's WWII airstrips - and post-war race tracks

sydneypast.blogspot.com/2014/11/whalan-reserve-another-of-sydneys-wwii.html

Sep 4, 2025

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Just for the record - another track worth mentioning - Kulnura (private)

sydneypast.blogspot.com/2021/03/just-for-record-another-track-worth.html

Sep 4, 2025

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Secrets of a Sydney past

sydneypast.blogspot.com/

Sep 4, 2025

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Selected Psychological Aspects of Meat Consumption—A Short Review - PMC

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6165406/

Jul 17, 2025

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Michael Tomasello: What Makes Humans Human? | Duke Today

today.duke.edu/2019/04/michael-tomasello-what-makes-humans-human

Jul 13, 2025

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How many species on Earth? About 8.7 million, new estimate says

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm

Jul 13, 2025

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Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique

theconversation.com/humans-arent-the-only-animals-with-complex-culture-but-researchers-point-to-one-feature-that-makes-ours-unique-245526

Jul 13, 2025

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Why Human Culture Never Stops Evolving - Neuroscience News

neurosciencenews.com/culture-evolution-neuroscience-28001/

Jul 13, 2025

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A Genomic View of the Pleistocene Population History of Asia | Current Anthropology: Vol 58, No S17

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694422

Jul 3, 2025

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When pouched carnivores ruled the animal kingdom

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2010/nov/when-pouched-carnivores-ruled-animal-kingdom

Jun 27, 2025

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The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf | Pursuit by the University of Melbourne

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-shared-evolution-of-the-tasmanian-tiger-and-the-wolf

Jun 27, 2025

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Using Major and Minor 6th Intervals to Make Your Music Sound 'Sweeter' | Guitar Lesson

www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/scales/using_major_and_minor_6th_intervals_to_make_your_music_sound_sweeter.html

Jun 14, 2025

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Feathered geniuses: Birds are much smarter than we think - Australian Geographic

www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/11/bird-intelligence/

Jun 11, 2025

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Sydney: a history of cycling through the decades | City of Sydney - News

news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/photos/sydney-a-history-of-cycling-through-the-decades

Jun 5, 2025

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