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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Michael Levin explores evolution through the lens of diverse intelligence, arguing that genotype–phenotype mapping is an interpretive, problem-solving process and considering how morphogenesis, bioelectric patterning and prebiotic learning shape agency and evolvability.
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Michael Levin explores how concepts from cognitive and behavioral science illuminate morphogenesis, including bioelectric pattern encoding, goal-directed body remodeling, and synthetic living systems like xenobots, and considers biomedical applications.
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A 54-minute conversation with researchers Katrina Schleisman and David Burke exploring Platonism in math and physics, patterns and learning, emergence and affordances, and how memory, signals, and chance shape diverse forms of intelligence.
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Philosopher David Resnik joins to discuss the Platonic Space model, connecting morphogenesis and latent space, Platonism and science, emergence and explanation, and the role of mathematical constraints in evolution.
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