Talk for Robosoft 2023
A talk at Robosoft 2023 explores how biological systems can reconfigure themselves through morphogenesis, highlighting research on Xenobots and the concept of multi-scale minds.
Michael Levin's talksLatest episodes — page 17
Working meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson
Michael Levin speaks with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson about clinical and philosophical perspectives on consciousness, split-brain research, confabulation, personal identity, and the possible emergence of AI experience.
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chat with Carlos E Perez about the TAME framework: intelligence and agency.
Michael Levin and Carlos E. Perez examine the TAME framework, exploring links between intelligence, agency and goal-directed behavior in biological and artificial systems, AGI risks, personhood, and how to preserve a compassionate, diverse future for humanity.
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin #3
Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, futurist Richard Watson, and biologist Mike Levin hold a working meeting on machines, life, agency, and the continuum of being, examining mechanistic models of humans, AI, souls, emergence, and what sustains meaningful experience.
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Conversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris
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Conversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin 2
Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin hold a working meeting on phenotypes, preferences, social emotions, and uncertainty, exploring a minimal unifying model of consciousness, its possible extension beyond the brain, and cellular predictive systems.
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Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin 2
Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin hold a working meeting exploring bioelectric interpretation, collective fields, memory, polycomputing, identity, and macroscopic constraints, and discuss conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary publishing challenges.
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Conversation between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore mind, selfhood, and evolution, discussing brain hemispheres, learning, embryos as problem-solvers, goal-directed systems, and the role of values and meaning.
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Engineering with agential materials: from evolution to biological robotics, via bioelectricity
Episode examines how living agential materials and bioelectric networks let cells compute and self-organize, discussing anatomical compilers, xenobots, kinematic self-replication, and implications for morphogenesis, future biomedicine, and bioethics.
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Beyond the brain: multiscale diverse intelligence as biological inspiration for AI
Talk explores bioelectric collective intelligence in living systems as inspiration for AI, covering biological gradient descent, parallels with multi-agent reinforcement learning, and questions about the nature and ubiquity of intelligence.
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Bioelectric networks underlie the intelligence of the body
This talk explores how bioelectric networks coordinate morphogenesis and homeostasis, presenting an anatomical compiler vision, organ and body reprogramming, and xenobots to illustrate new biomedical and evolutionary implications.
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