Michael Levin talks with Buck Trible about the genetics, morphology and behavior of ant societies, including static allometry of castes, clonal parasites, scaling laws, and what ant colonies reveal about developmental and collective intelligence.
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Michael Levin explores how biological architecture and morphogenesis reveal multi-scale collective intelligence, from bioelectric pattern memory and cancer to biobots, and outlines implications for unconventional computing and expanded notions of minds.
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This talk explores how neuroscience concepts and somatic bioelectricity can explain development, morphogenesis, cancer, and unconventional intelligence, highlighting links between cognitive science, body patterning, evolution, and questions about minds, memory, and ethics.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, AI,
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Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin discuss qualitative Austenian information, biological information processing, metamorphosis, creative information control, and distributed information encoding in living systems.
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Around-table discussion with Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin exploring affective consciousness, determinism, agency, and how feeling might arise in biological and artificial systems.
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Michael Levin presents research on diverse intelligence and cognition across biological systems, focusing on bioelectric morphogenesis, body patterning, and how these processes inform theories of mind and consciousness.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup
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Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Michael Levin discuss analytic idealism, evolution, agency, meaning, and teleology at the intersection of physics, cognition, and consciousness.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~55 minute talk on the topic of the
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Michael Levin explores how collective intelligence across cells and tissues shapes the multiscale human, examining bioelectric control, morphological computation, biomedical applications, and implications for evolution, health, and selfhood.
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Michael Levin explores how self-constructing biological systems compute, contrasting them with conventional computer architectures and proposing a new view of morphogenesis, multi-scale selves, and the emergence of cognition in both living organisms and AI.
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