Prof at Univ of British Columbia. I do interdisciplinary research at the interface of creativity and evolution, write fiction, & occasionally compose music.
Joined April 2014
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Hi all, I created a website for my new book complete with front cover, description, endorsements, table of contents, and sample chapter. My life's work finally in print. Check it out, ppen to any suggestions! gabora-psych.ok.ubc.ca/dawn-…
My book cover and description are live: cambridge.org/core/books/daw…
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Yesterday I posted about someone making a video of research done by myself and two of my students. Here's the paper the video was based on! 'Cross-Modal Associations in Creativity: Evaluating Word-Image Pairing in Humans and Large Language Models' - osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/fv…
Someone made a short AI-assisted video about a study that two of my students and I presented this year at the International Conference on Computational Creativity. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=UhC8g-Zs…
See the video of my appearance on Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi's Area 302 video podcast, where we explore ideas about applying quantum math to cognition and concepts, theories of consciousness, and other fun topics - youtube.com/watch?v=LNjZya4B…
New podcast on the creative muse: youtube.com/watch?v=Fw1TyWpX…
Two talks in Nevada next week, one on the creative muse at Burning Man: palenquenorte.vercel.app/sch…
and one at the University of Nevada, Reno
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What looks like a perfectly smooth, seamless combination is actually the result of countless hours of hard training.
Check out a talk I recently gave at MC0001 (machine-consciousness.ai/) hosted by the California Institute for Machine Consciousness, titled 'Two Evolutionary Transitions in Human Cognition and their Relevance to Consciousness' 'youtube.com/watch?v=MiHbafkQ…'
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I laughed so hard at this 😂 it gets better as it goes…
The first one got taken down for ‘harmful speech’…I have no idea why.
So I’m trying again :)
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Famous gorilla Kiyomasa was caught quietly reflecting after what seemed to be a disagreement with his mate at a Japanese zoo. 😂
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Packing thousand of straws together creates a low-tech pixel screen for objects.
Each straw acts as an independent light pathway, perfectly mimicking exactly
how data channels work.
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ℂ × ℝ³ × ℤ ⟶ ℝ⁴: Complex numbers (ℂ) encode phases/amplitudes for interference patterns; ℝ³ gives 3D spatial coordinates; ℤ indexes discrete layers or harmonic modes; maps to ℝ⁴ for intensity, time or color.
Check out the talk given by myself and Armando Vieira at the AAAI Spring Symposium titled ''Autocatalytic Constraint Closure as an Organizing Principle for Machine Consciousness": youtube.com/watch?v=pG2XgjAA…
New piece in Mindbloggling:
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