Bioelectricity: A Bridge Between Physics and Cognition, by Way of Biology
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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"Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology" by Michael Levin
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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Intrinsic Motivation in Evolved, Engineered, and Hybrid Systems
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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"Intrinsic motivation in evolved, engineered, and hybrid systems" by Michael Levin
Michael Levin discusses intrinsic motivation across biological, synthetic, and hybrid systems, exploring how goal-directed behavior emerges, can be modeled and reprogrammed, and what this reveals about agency across scales.
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Discussion between Elliot Murphy and Michael Levin 1
Neuroscientist Michael Levin and linguist Elliot Murphy discuss language, evolution, and neuroscience, covering intracranial syntax, grammar across systems, non-neural communication, analog computation, and implications for free will and AI language models.
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Discussion with Chris Fields and Julian Gough #1
Chris Fields and Julian Gough join Michael Levin to discuss evolutionary cosmology, exploring selection on the scale of universes, analogies to biological evolution, universe heredity and habitability, water chemistry, and the idea of a cosmic genome.
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Discussion with Jordi Vallverdú #1
Michael Levin and philosopher Jordi Vallverdú discuss how information and cognitive patterns might be transferred from embodied human minds into large language models, drawing analogies from biology and considering implications for science and human limits.
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Aastha Jain and I interview Robert Gatenby
Aastha Jain Simes and Michael Levin interview cancer researcher Robert Gatenby about evolutionary and physiological approaches to cancer, covering bioelectricity, information thermodynamics, aging, adaptive therapy, biomarkers, and habitat imaging.
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"Mapping Diverse Intelligence Spaces" by Janet Wiles - discussion
Janet Wiles presents a talk on mapping diverse intelligence spaces through computational models of memory, language and xenobots, followed by a discussion with Michael Levin on development, plasticity, bioelectric signaling, and synthetic bioengineering.
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Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with Agential Materials by Michael Levin
Michael Levin presents an updated talk on mind-blindness and how to recognize and communicate with agential materials, exploring collective intelligence in cells, morphogenesis, xenobots, and pattern-based views of minds, selves, and goals.
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Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin
Michael Levin reviews biological forms and behaviors, goal-directed morphogenesis and homeostasis, xenobots, and Platonic patterns beyond emergence, ending with a speculative model and research program on minds, machines, and interfaces.
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Biological and Technological Information Processing
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~35 minute talk on commonalities and differences between
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