Join Professor Michael Levin as he dives into bioelectricity, regenerative medicine, and the mysteries of intelligence in unconventional embodiments.
Neuroscientist Nicolas Rouleau joins for a follow-up discussion on consciousness, memory transfer, cognitive plasticity and aging, goal decoding in the brain, and unusual experiments on conditioning and learning in materials like Play-Doh and neural tissues.
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Neuroscientist Nicolas Rouleau joins Michael Levin for a wide-ranging discussion on the mind as a material process, exploring free will, agency, cybernetics, brain death, and how consciousness and information might be transmitted or realized in different systems.
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Lisa Barrett, Karen Quigley, and Benjamin Lyons continue their discussion of relational realism, allostasis, predictive processing, and embodiment, exploring how brain, body, and world jointly shape emotion, perception, and scientific objectivity.
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Thomas Seyfried, Derek Lee, Tomás Duraj and colleagues discuss cancer as a metabolic disease, examining mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic therapies, ion channels, bioelectric control, and links to aging, regeneration, and disease models.
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Borjan Milinkovic presents a case for biological computationalism in consciousness, discussing neural architectures, metabolic constraints, heterarchical scale integration, dendritic and field-based computation, and consequences for artificial consciousness.
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This 1h44m roundtable on the Platonic Space Hypothesis explores platonic forms in biology, xenobots, symbiosis, competency spaces, play and plasticity, Markov blankets, thermodynamics, and will-to-live dynamics.
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A 54-minute discussion with philosopher Darren Iammarino on open problems in the Platonic Space model, exploring patterns, minds, causation, randomness, quantum scale, and the nature of cyborg and unconventional minds and identities.
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Michael Levin explains how bioelectric signaling serves as a cognitive-like control layer in morphogenesis, exploring its role in development, regeneration, cancer, aging, and prospects for engineering form.
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Contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis engage in a two-hour discussion spanning Platonism vs Darwinism, forms and mathematics, multicellularity, representation and computation, concept space, myth and metaphysics, and scientific pluralism.
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Contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis discuss math, identity, abstract realms, attractors, simulation, mind and agency, exploring how content, creativity, scale and boundaries might fit into a unified view of reality.
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Neuroscientists Mijail Serruya, Alessandro Napoli, and Wesley Clawson discuss brain-body-machine interfaces, from BrainGate and biohybrids to aging, memory, plasticity, and hypnosis as emerging clinical and conceptual tools.
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Researchers including Lisa Feldman Barrett, Benjamin Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley discuss allostasis and top-down control, bioelectric collective intelligence, development, plasticity, and agency across biological scales.
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