A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering | Northeastern University
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Embodied Minds: discovering diverse intelligence through the lens of biomedicine
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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Aastha Jain Simes & I interview Denis Noble
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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Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock 2
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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"Unconventional Cognition Through the Lens of Cellular Collective Intelligence in Morphogenesis"
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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The Bioelectric Interface to the Intelligence of the Body: the future of biomedicine
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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The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence: A Roadmap for Cancer Medicine
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~45 minute keynote talk at the Bioelectricity and
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The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence: a Roadmap for Cancer Medicine by Michael Levin
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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The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: A Model System for Basal Cognition
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"The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: a model system for basal cognition" by Michael Levin
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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Discussion with Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney, and Ben Hartl on Evolution, Development, Generative Models
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Discussion w/ Kevin MItchell, Nick Cheney, & Ben Hartl on evolution, development, generative models
Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney and Ben Hartl discuss how connectionist generative models can illuminate the genome’s role in evolution, development, and the control of form and function, touching on planarian regeneration, bioelectricity, robustness and multiscale causation.
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