Videos
Talks, conversations, and presentations
Full interviews and presentations on the autoregressive brain framework, the nature of language, memory, and consciousness. Short-form clips and highlights are on my YouTube channel.
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The (Disturbing) Theory of Autoregressive Minds
A comprehensive presentation of the autoregressive brain framework — the proposal that cognition is sequential state generation in a non-Markovian dynamical system, and what that means for memory, language, and the self.
The Autoregressive Mind
An introduction to the framework: why memory isn't storage, what LLMs reveal about cognition, and how sequential prediction might underlie everything from language to consciousness.
Memory Without Storage
A deeper dive into memory as generative trajectory regeneration, the evidence from reconstructive memory research, and implications for the nature of the self.
Thoughtforms Life — Michael Levin
Discussion #1 with Michael Levin
A conversation with Michael Levin on language as a potentially autonomous system, the relationship between information structure in brains and AI models, virtual governance, and emergent patterns across substrates.
DemystifySci Podcast
A Terrifying Theory of Language
DemystifySci #413. Language as an autonomous autoregressive system — how distributional structure over sequences can produce meaning without reference, and what happens when civilizations lose coherence through semantic drift.
Are You Thinking, or Just Next Token Generating?
DemystifySci #414. Part two — going deeper into whether human cognition is fundamentally next-state prediction, and what that means for our understanding of thought, reasoning, and agency.
Ekkolapto Polymath Salon
Is Language Disembodied?
Discussion with Addy Cha at the FAU Ekkolapto Polymath Salon on whether language requires embodied grounding or can operate as a self-contained distributional system.
Digital Psychedelics, Infohazards, Synesthesia
Joint presentation with William Hahn at the Ekkolapto Polymath Salon on synesthesia, digital psychedelics, pseudo-psychedelics, infohazards, and psychological prompt engineering.
On Using Thought to Understand Itself
A philosophical discussion at the Ekkolapto Salon on the limits of introspection, self-referential thought, and recursive modeling of the generative process.
Other Appearances
The Hidden Architecture of Language
Beyond Words with Garrett Oyama. Language as an autoregressive system, the aesthetics of syntax, parallels between language and jazz improvisation, and what LLMs reveal about human communication.
AI and the Autonomy of Language
A discussion on LLMs as evidence for the autonomy of linguistic structure — the idea that language operates as a self-organizing system independent of speaker intentions or external reference.
Innovating with AI: How Universities Are Preparing Students
PBS "Your South Florida" segment on AI research at FAU, the MPCR lab, and using artificial intelligence to study the brain.