Michael Levin presents a 50-minute talk on bioelectric networks as interfaces to somatic intelligence, exploring their role in regenerative medicine, birth defects, cancer, and how tissues may be modeled as collective intelligences.
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Benjamin Lyons, Mark Blumberg, and Karen Adolph explore motor development and behavior in humans and other animals, linking infant locomotion and problem solving to broader ideas of ecological and developmental systems, emergence, and morphogenetic intelligence.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~35 minute talk about diverse intelligence and our
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Michael Levin discusses diverse forms of biological intelligence, from embryos and cellular bioelectric networks to anthrobots, and outlines emerging frameworks and tools for recognizing, communicating with, and guiding these unconventional minds.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~20 minute very rapid talk reviewing ideas around
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Michael Levin surveys how intelligence may scale across biological tissues and artificial systems, discussing cells as agents, morphogenesis as cognition, bioelectric control of form, regenerative guidance, anthrobot design, and ethical issues of emerging minds.
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Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng discuss culture as an additional scale of biological organization, examining cultural standardization, multiscale collective agency, moral systems as agents, and how patterns and variational learning shape cultural dynamics.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates)
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Michael Levin gives a 30-minute lecture to an undergraduate ethics class on how new biology research on mind spectra, cellular intelligence, bioelectric control, and anthrobots raises novel ethical questions about life and embodiment.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour conversation with Frank Putnam (https://scholar.
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Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky discuss dissociative disorders, clinical psychology, and how concepts like temporal depth, integration, and stress relate to aging, bioelectricity, regenerative medicine, and cancer.
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A 50-minute conversation with Michael Johnson on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and how vascular tension, trauma, fascia, and bodywide bioelectric fields relate to computation and cognition in unconventional substrates.
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