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BI 246 Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency
Cognition, Artificial Intelligence, Biology and podcast with Andrea Gambarotto
Brain Inspired, Hosted by Paul Middlebrooks
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Andrea Gambarotto examines agency and intrinsic purpose in biological cognition, drawing on Hegel and contemporary theoretical biology. The conversation connects these ideas to enactivism and asks how living intelligence differs from artificial systems, including language models.
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