You are not a Computer: Python, Dynamical Systems, and Radical Embodied...
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Argues the brain is better modeled as a coupled dynamical system than a Turing‑style computer and shows concrete Python implementations in the PyData stack with interactive Bokeh apps, symbolic equations turned into fast SciPy solvers, and an AR/VR lab using Hololens eye tracking. Runs thousands of trial-specific simulations (about 2,500 per condition) in minutes on a single core, uses model‑driven NPCs to probe environment difficulty, and demonstrates usable demos though real‑time deployment still needs optimization. claims computer metaphor is wrong builds interactive Bokeh demos runs 2500 simulations per timestep
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Direct perception theory
- 4:47Perception in action
- 6:55Dynamical systems
- 7:39HKB model
- 14:06Dynamical models with SymPy
- 14:49Van der Pol oscillator
- 18:06Steering for obstacle avoidance
- 21:06AR/VR lab experiments
- 23:14Multi-agent simulations
- 24:57Summary
- 25:21Q&A
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