Michael Levin and Martin Hanczyc discuss programmable artificial cell droplets and active matter as minimal models of cognition, covering biocompatible synthetic cells, droplet-based memory and computation, emergent goals, and connections between machines and organisms.
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A 45-minute talk by Michael Levin explores diverse intelligence through cellular communication, showing how bioelectric patterning and regenerative medicine reveal minds emerging from cells and synthetic life.
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Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with physiologist Denis Noble about his systems biology approach, critiques of neo-Darwinism, roles of genetic and epigenetic information, causality, and implications for evolution and medicine.
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Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock join a one-hour discussion on biology, evolution, information, and causation in the philosophy of mind, exploring topics like top-down causation, feeling-based AI, human vs machine motivation, and future moral agents.
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Michael Levin discusses collective intelligence in morphogenesis as a model for understanding how cognition emerges and scales in living systems, covering bioelectric pattern control, cellular memory, cancer, and xenobots.
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Michael Levin presents a 40-minute lecture on how the body's bioelectric networks underlie development, regeneration, and disease, exploring applications in organ repair, cancer treatment, and new bioengineered anthrobots as a future direction for medicine.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~45 minute keynote talk at the Bioelectricity and
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In this 45-minute NIH keynote, Michael Levin outlines how cellular bioelectric signaling underlies morphogenetic intelligence, proposing a bioelectric hypothesis of cancer and exploring electroceutical strategies for tumor normalization and future cancer diagnostics.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour talk on morphogenesis as a collective
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Michael Levin presents morphogenesis as a form of collective intelligence, explaining how cells coordinate via bioelectric signals to build and repair bodies, how this relates to basal cognition, and what it implies for regeneration, cancer, synthetic organisms and ethics.
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