​WHAT ⭐️:

​• Speaker: Professor Josh Bongard @ University of Vermont (Follow Prof. Bongard on X)

​• Josh will discuss their lab’s work on:

• ​Polycomputation: using vibration as the medium of computation to achieve multiple computations in the same place at the same time, without recourse to quantum effects.

• ​Building polycomputational robots which heal the Cartesian divide by conflating action (vibrations cause motility) and thought (vibrations embody computation).

• ​How embodied AI could be about so much more than dropping foundation models into robot bodies.

​​​​​• Hosted by Addy (Founder @ Ekkolapto.org, O'Shaughnessy Ventures 2025 Grantee).

​• Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, Frontier Tower in SF, DC/Maryland, NYC, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo.​​​

​• Sponsored by Ekkolápto Research and the Computational Philosophy Research Group at MIT.

​• Food and beverages provided for the weekend!

​• ⭐️ RSVP NOW for our October 2025 Longevity, Cybernetics, & Complex Systems Research Hackathon @ MIT Media Lab–focusing on highly unconventional ideas in biological function: https://luma.com/lifespan

​• About the Computational Philosophy Research Group: Our last salon with Joscha Bach, Profs. Will Hahn & Elan Barenholtz was hosted in-person by MIT Media Lab's Awu Chen and Alistair Pernigo, and Alif Jakir; and Ekkolapto's Addy Cha.

​​​​WHO 🧠:

​​​​• Students, researchers, professors, and founders passionate about fields of philosophy and logic, computer science and AI, math and physics, engineering, cognitive science, longevity, linguistics, and consciousness.

​​​​• A technical background is preferred but not required. Even if you think you are not a fit for this event, apply anyways!

​​PREVIOUS EVENTS 📸:

​• 2024 Longevity & Unconventional Computing Research Hackathon at MIT Media Lab, featuring Stephen Wolfram, Joscha Bach, David Sinclair, Curt Jaimungal, and more: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5dPSW_KkniuHpoLwlzkYcxhxn50Mn0T

​​​​​​• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ekkolapto3

​• Recent Polymath Salon at UT Austin with Professor Scott Aaronson on the Philosophy of Computational Complexity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OST1DjD08Hg

​• Recent Polymath Salon at University of Toronto with Michael Levin, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, and Elan Barenholtz on the Binding Problem and Platonic Spaces: https://youtu.be/0BVM0UC28nY