Talk explores bioelectric collective intelligence in living systems as inspiration for AI, covering biological gradient descent, parallels with multi-agent reinforcement learning, and questions about the nature and ubiquity of intelligence.
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This talk explores how bioelectric networks coordinate morphogenesis and homeostasis, presenting an anatomical compiler vision, organ and body reprogramming, and xenobots to illustrate new biomedical and evolutionary implications.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A talk on "Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional
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Michael Levin explores diverse intelligences in biological and synthetic systems, covering morphogenesis as problem solving, bioelectric patterning, planarian body-plan memory, cancer as scaled agency, xenobots, and ethical implications.
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Michael Levin explains how non-neural bioelectricity guides cell collectives to shape and regenerate bodies, outlines an anatomical compiler concept, and discusses electroceutical strategies for defects, limb regrowth, cancer, and bioengineering.
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Michael Levin and Iain McGilchrist explore links between brain asymmetry, bioelectricity, primitive biological memory, and how attention, experience, and mind–body relations shape selfhood, meaning, and life.
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Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin discuss cell competency, directionality in evolution, goal-directed behavior, individuality and identity, and how representations, language, and measurement relate to objects, selfhood, and AI.
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Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss the role of observers in physics and consciousness, the engineering of sentient and affective artificial agents, and how bonds and shared agency might give rise to collective minds.
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In this 1-hour talk on the Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME), the speaker examines how bioelectricity coordinates cells into collective intelligences, framing morphogenesis, memory, xenobots, and future bodies as problem solving in morphospace.
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The episode examines developmental bioelectricity as a foundation for brains, cognition, and behavior, from tadpoles that see with eyes on their tails to cells navigating morphospace and storing pattern memories. It also explores xenobots and hybrid organisms as probes of intelligence.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A talk on intelligence beyond the brain CONNECT WITH ME: * Podcast
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Michael Levin discusses multi-scale bioelectric intelligence, regeneration, and the continuum of cognition, linking developmental biology with AI, embodiment, and forms of intelligence beyond brains and individual organisms.
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