Michael Levin outlines a framework for unconventional intelligences, using morphogenesis, bioelectric pattern control, and systems like xenobots and the MomBot platform to explore memory beyond the brain, multi-scale cognition, and ethical futures.
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Michael Levin outlines a brief argument that biological systems inhabit a structured Platonic space of mathematical patterns and sketches a research program to study minds and interfaces in this pattern space.
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Michael Levin explores non-brain-based intelligence, from cellular and anatomical cognition to bioelectric communication, xenobots, and how to build tools for understanding and relating to diverse minds.
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Neuroscientists Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, and Jordan Theriault discuss allostasis, interoception, and predictive brain models, linking metabolism, evolution, and control theory to behavior and psychology, followed by a brief Q&A.
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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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