Michael Levin introduces developmental bioelectricity as the information medium of collective cell intelligence, showing how modulating bioelectric signals can reprogram growth, prevent cancer, and guide regeneration without changing DNA.
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Michael Levin explains how cells and tissues store physiological memories that shape patient-specific responses to treatment, proposing a hardware–software view of biology and illustrating bioelectric reprogramming with two-headed planarian flatworms.
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Michael Levin explores how embodied minds and biological patterning give rise to apparent selves, covering mind continua, bioelectric morphogenesis, metamorphosis, synthetic organisms like xenobots, and links between cognition, mathematics and contemplative science.
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Alexey Tolchinsky, Patricia Silveira and Michael Levin discuss molecular markers of trauma, developmental stress, and how concepts from trauma psychology might be modeled in minimal cognitive systems like Xenobots and Anthrobots.
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Michael Levin presents a keynote on how living tissues function as agential materials, exploring bioelectric anatomical intelligence, Xenobots, and a new embodied robot scientist that bridges human researchers and cellular systems.
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This episode explores how bioelectricity serves as a link between physics, biology, and cognition, highlighting its role in understanding complex biological processes.
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Michael Levin discusses how bioelectric signals enable top-down control from cognition to cellular and molecular processes, framing cells as agential materials and exploring regeneration, anatomical patterning, and synthetic life.
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The episode explores intrinsic motivation in biological, artificial, and hybrid systems, discussing how these systems develop self-driven behaviors and the implications for research and engineering.
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Michael Levin discusses intrinsic motivation across biological, synthetic, and hybrid systems, exploring how goal-directed behavior emerges, can be modeled and reprogrammed, and what this reveals about agency across scales.
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Neuroscientist Michael Levin and linguist Elliot Murphy discuss language, evolution, and neuroscience, covering intracranial syntax, grammar across systems, non-neural communication, analog computation, and implications for free will and AI language models.
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Chris Fields and Julian Gough join Michael Levin to discuss evolutionary cosmology, exploring selection on the scale of universes, analogies to biological evolution, universe heredity and habitability, water chemistry, and the idea of a cosmic genome.
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Michael Levin and philosopher Jordi Vallverdú discuss how information and cognitive patterns might be transferred from embodied human minds into large language models, drawing analogies from biology and considering implications for science and human limits.
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