Michael Levin presents bioelectricity as the software of life, describing how cell networks store anatomical memories, guide regeneration, influence cancer, and enable technologies like xenobots, with implications for intelligence, morphogenesis, and ethics.
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In this lecture, Michael Levin explores how bioelectric signals coordinate cellular swarms and contribute to collective intelligence beyond traditional neuron-based neuroscience.
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Michael Levin explains how bioelectric networks underlie morphogenesis and regenerative capacity, proposing them as an interface to somatic intelligence for future regenerative therapies and control of body patterning.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss what novel behaviors
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Michael Levin, Mark Solms, and Chris Fields explore how novel behaviors arise in problem-solving, whether explanted brain tissue and hybrid robots can be conscious, and how to define sleep in artificial and unconventional agents.
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Mike Levin discusses cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and morphological intelligence, explaining how bioelectrical signals guide patterning, regeneration, and tumor formation, and how modulating these signals might normalize cancer.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Working meeting between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I where we
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Chris Fields, Richard Watson and Michael Levin explore error correction, decoherence and observers, multiscale resonance in life, and Patrick Grim’s time-extended logic for handling contradictions and self-reference as fractal structures.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes We discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history
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Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin explore concepts of self and temporally extended experience, free will and responsibility, how learning systems generalize beyond data, alien forms of mind, and what extreme cases of brain structure reveal about consciousness.
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Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore brain hemispheres, symmetry and asymmetry, embryonic development, teleology in life and machines, resonance, and how algorithms, embodiment, and plants can exhibit learning and agency.
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Michael Levin discusses implications of his work for understanding consciousness beyond brains, drawing on TAME, morphogenesis as problem solving, bioelectric control of form, xenobots, and the ethical questions raised by future minds.
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