Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
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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
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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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Diverse Intelligence
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A talk on "Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional
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"Diverse Intelligence" - a talk by Michael Levin
Michael Levin explores diverse intelligences in biological and synthetic systems, covering morphogenesis as problem solving, bioelectric patterning, planarian body-plan memory, cancer as scaled agency, xenobots, and ethical implications.
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Michael Levin talk on bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium
Michael Levin explains how non-neural bioelectricity guides cell collectives to shape and regenerate bodies, outlines an anatomical compiler concept, and discusses electroceutical strategies for defects, limb regrowth, cancer, and bioengineering.
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