Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin discuss active inference and the free energy principle, affect and stress regulation, the neural basis of qualia and consciousness, and how global workspace and agency might emerge from brains and simpler systems like bacteria.
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A University of Hertfordshire talk explores collective intelligence in cellular morphogenesis, followed by Q&A on genetics vs bioelectricity, holography and memory, and how affect relates to morphospace.
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A talk at Robosoft 2023 explores how biological systems can reconfigure themselves through morphogenesis, highlighting research on Xenobots and the concept of multi-scale minds.
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Michael Levin speaks with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson about clinical and philosophical perspectives on consciousness, split-brain research, confabulation, personal identity, and the possible emergence of AI experience.
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Michael Levin and Carlos E. Perez examine the TAME framework, exploring links between intelligence, agency and goal-directed behavior in biological and artificial systems, AGI risks, personhood, and how to preserve a compassionate, diverse future for humanity.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum
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Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, futurist Richard Watson, and biologist Mike Levin hold a working meeting on machines, life, agency, and the continuum of being, examining mechanistic models of humans, AI, souls, emergence, and what sustains meaningful experience.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris
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Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin hold a working meeting on phenotypes, preferences, social emotions, and uncertainty, exploring a minimal unifying model of consciousness, its possible extension beyond the brain, and cellular predictive systems.
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Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin hold a working meeting exploring bioelectric interpretation, collective fields, memory, polycomputing, identity, and macroscopic constraints, and discuss conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary publishing challenges.
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Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore mind, selfhood, and evolution, discussing brain hemispheres, learning, embryos as problem-solvers, goal-directed systems, and the role of values and meaning.
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Episode examines how living agential materials and bioelectric networks let cells compute and self-organize, discussing anatomical compilers, xenobots, kinematic self-replication, and implications for morphogenesis, future biomedicine, and bioethics.
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