A 50-minute conversation with Michael Johnson on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and how vascular tension, trauma, fascia, and bodywide bioelectric fields relate to computation and cognition in unconventional substrates.
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A one-hour talk on developmental bioelectricity and its role as a medium of memory, morphogenesis, and regeneration, drawing analogies to brain function. Topics include genomic control, pattern homeostasis, cancer, electroceuticals, and novel synthetic organisms.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour talk by Jack Tuszynski (https://en.
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Jack Tuszynski presents research on the electrical and electromagnetic properties of microtubules, covering cellular electrodynamics, conductivity–capacitance experiments, possible computational roles, and implications for modeling and synthetic biology.
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Clinical psychologist Alexey Tolchinsky and neuropsychiatrist Thomas Pollak discuss how rejuvenation therapies might affect cognition and memory, and explore experimental strategies using Anthrobots, xenobots, and cellular models of psychiatric disease.
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Philosopher of science Lauren Ross discusses how scientists use explanations and causation, covering mechanisms and levels in biology, emergence and control, pragmatism versus metaphysics, and the role of mathematical and mechanistic models.
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Oncologist Azra Raza discusses her clinical journey and a new first-cell paradigm for cancer, covering stress, cell fusion, immortality, personalized stents, limits of current therapies, and how patients can navigate a cancer diagnosis.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a very fast (~33min) flyover of some ideas relevant
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Michael Levin gives a concise overview of how biology, computation, and cognition intersect, covering collective intelligence in morphogenesis, biological problem solving, evolution, novel goal-directed systems, and a space of possible minds.
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Michael Levin speaks with Willem Nielsen from the Wolfram Institute about using cellular automata to model health and disease. They discuss robust automata, planarian morphogenesis, minimal competent models, and bioelectric control mechanisms.
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Michael Levin and Iain McGilchrist discuss Levin's Platonic Space paper, exploring how abstract forms might shape biological processes, consciousness, and evolution. Topics include panpsychism, morphogenesis, xenobots, ethics, and the role of hemispheric thinking.
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In this seminar, Michael Levin outlines a cognitive approach to bioengineering and regenerative medicine, viewing morphogenesis as behavior of cellular collective intelligence and using bioelectric signaling to reprogram anatomical patterning and regeneration.
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