Clinical psychologists Alex Schmidt and Alexey Tolchinsky discuss trauma, PTSD, somatic memory, dissociation, and protective mechanisms, linking psychotherapy to developmental biology and addressing treatment in incarcerated and neurodiverse populations.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour discussion with Richard Watson (https://www.
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An hour-long conversation with Richard Watson and Josh Bongard exploring concepts of agency, co-located and energetic observers, polycomputing, developmental attractors, symmetry, quantum analogies, and nested multiscale coherence in evolution.
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Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and Michael Levin discuss irruption theory, polycomputing, and the mind-body relationship, exploring intrinsic computation, observer realism, and the roles of noise, values, and multiscale dynamics in physics and AI.
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Josh Bongard, Atoosa Parsa, Richard Watson and Michael Levin discuss agency without free will, oscillatory computation, polycomputing, and evolving notions of selfhood, including fluid, cyclic, and relational models of the self and their links to perception and sensory plasticity.
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Tim Jackson, Karl Friston, Chris Fields and Michael Levin discuss the free energy principle, realism and metaphysics, evolution and exaptation, and how generative noise and time scales relate to novelty and construction in complex systems.
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Researchers Rafael Kaufman, Pranav Gupta, and Jacob Taylor outline an active inference model of collective intelligence and discuss its implications for organizational behavior and large-scale coordination.
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This episode explores embodiment through examples of embryos, regeneration, and bioelectric networks, asking how cells coordinate as collective selves. It also considers bioelectric reprogramming in cancer and the implications of xenobots and anthrobots.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is ~1 hour conversation with Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.
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Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock join Michael Levin for a wide-ranging discussion of evolution, bioelectric aging, goal-directed behavior, death genes and multicellularity, and how machine metaphors and physicalism shape explanations in biology and mind.
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Benjamin Lyons joins Michael Levin for a 50-minute conversation on prices as cognitive glue, linking economic theory with collective intelligence in biology, from minimal rational agents to information flow, learning, and pathological dynamics.
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Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman discuss evolution, bioelectric minds, machines, and how biology reinterprets itself, touching on xenobots, microbial communities, emotion, memory, and cosmology.
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