Michael Levin, Mark Solms, and Chris Fields explore how novel behaviors arise in problem-solving, whether explanted brain tissue and hybrid robots can be conscious, and how to define sleep in artificial and unconventional agents.
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Mike Levin discusses cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and morphological intelligence, explaining how bioelectrical signals guide patterning, regeneration, and tumor formation, and how modulating these signals might normalize cancer.
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Chris Fields, Richard Watson and Michael Levin explore error correction, decoherence and observers, multiscale resonance in life, and Patrick Grim’s time-extended logic for handling contradictions and self-reference as fractal structures.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes We discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history
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Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin explore concepts of self and temporally extended experience, free will and responsibility, how learning systems generalize beyond data, alien forms of mind, and what extreme cases of brain structure reveal about consciousness.
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Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore brain hemispheres, symmetry and asymmetry, embryonic development, teleology in life and machines, resonance, and how algorithms, embodiment, and plants can exhibit learning and agency.
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Michael Levin discusses implications of his work for understanding consciousness beyond brains, drawing on TAME, morphogenesis as problem solving, bioelectric control of form, xenobots, and the ethical questions raised by future minds.
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Michael Levin talks with Iain McGilchrist and Richard Watson about how we explain biological form, covering morphogenesis, memory, mathematical structure, perception, and the limits of purely mechanistic approaches in developmental biology and bioengineering.
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Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss dreams, affect, and artificial minds, exploring brainstem lesions, information encoding, and multilevel causation. They also examine emergence, individuality, consciousness, group minds, time, and agency.
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Mike Levin hosts Chris Fields and Richard Watson for a working meeting on error-correcting codes, multi-scale control, and the tension between reductionism and macro-level causality, touching on observers, oscillatory networks, and transformative communication.
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