A working meeting with Alexander Ororbia and Karl Friston examines their Mortal Computations paper, discussing morphology, gene networks as learners, dynamics and memory, and how these ideas bear on reprogramming biology and cognition.
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Cognitive scientist Tom Froese joins Michael Levin to discuss Froese's Irruption theory, exploring embodied minds, agency, mind–body interaction, computational emergence, and implications for experiments, clinical applications, seizures, entropy, and free will.
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Michael Levin and Michael Pollan discuss ideas from a recent paper on polycomputing in biology, metamorphosis, flexible repair, and how selves, memory, agency, ethics, and consciousness may span multiple scales and relate to AI.
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Michael Levin gives an hour-long talk on biorobotics with agential living materials, explaining bioelectric control of morphogenesis, regeneration, pattern memory, and how systems like planaria, xenobots, and anthrobots can be engineered as adaptive machines.
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Michael Levin explains how biological systems, from cells to organisms, exhibit collective intelligence and self-organization, exploring metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioelectric control. He connects these ideas to AI, ethics, and what minds and selves are.
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Aastha Jain Simes and Michael Levin interview Min Zhao about his path from trauma surgery to pioneering research on ion currents, electric guidance of cell migration, and the role of bioelectricity in wound healing and developmental repair.
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Neurobiologist Ali Hanson discusses her path into neuroscience and presents research on neural activity and self-organizing behavior in Hydra, touching on molecules vs bioelectricity and the challenges of studying complex biological systems.
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Michael Levin explains how worms, frogs, and other living systems reveal collective intelligence in regeneration, morphogenesis, and bioelectric signaling, and what this implies for concepts of self, disease, new synthetic organisms, and ethics.
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Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with developmental bioelectricity pioneer Richard Nuccitelli about inventing the vibrating probe, how cells use electric cues, and the evolution of bioelectric approaches to cancer therapy and development.
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Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and evolutionary biologist/computer scientist Richard Watson discuss cognition-first evolution, resonant agency, Markov kernels, trace logic, and how these ideas relate to physics, time, and consciousness.
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John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin explore mind, selfhood, Platonic spaces, and diverse intelligences, connecting cognitive models and meaning crisis to questions of identity, agency, practice, and compassionate personhood.
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Michael Levin presents a 45-minute talk on how bioelectric networks guide morphogenesis and can be understood through concepts from cognitive and behavioral science. He discusses pattern memory, regeneration, cancer as a breakdown of tissue-level intelligence, and bioelectric-based therapies.
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