Nora Belrose joins a 65-minute discussion on consciousness, AI sentience, and Platonism, covering moral stakes, dynamic Platonic patterns, vulnerable minds, and implications of simulated and copied minds.
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Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak discuss degrees of introspection in natural and artificial agents through the lens of active inference, linking metacognition, therapy, and prior preferences to cellular priors and regenerative biology.
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Philosopher Alex Kiefer explores how entropy might underlie motivation and agency in natural and artificial systems, touching on psychophysical identity, willpower, Buddhist views of purpose, emergent goals under uncertainty, and Platonic patterns.
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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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