Michael Levin speaks with philosopher Mayli Mertens about molecular placebos, how genetic predictions and beliefs can shape physiology via bioelectric processes, and the role of self-fulfilling prophecies in medicine and cancer remissions.
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A 1-hour talk comparing biological and current technological information-processing systems, covering topics such as morphogenesis, unconventional and collective cellular intelligence, bioelectric networks, and how these ideas inform biomedicine, AI, and ethics.
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Philosophers and scientists Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss memory, consciousness, affect, cellular problem-solving, needs versus cognition, and how patterns, goals, and fitness relate to minds and reality.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1.5 hour conversation with Richard Watson (https:
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Michael Levin speaks with Richard Watson and Leo Caves about eigenforms, pilot-wave ontology, memory, autopoiesis, subsystem autonomy, causality versus geometry, and how resonance, recursion and Clifford algebra inform process philosophy and unconventional cognition.
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Neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms discusses morphogenesis, collective intelligence, panpsychism, and the nature of mind, followed by audience questions on self, emotion, aging, free will, and immortality.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour conversation between Alexey Tolchinsky (https://www.
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Clinical psychologist Alexey Tolchinsky and neuropsychiatrist Thomas Pollak discuss functional neurological disorders, voices and avatar therapy, subagents in the mind, collective intelligence, and how psychiatry understands cognition and the self.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour 10 minute discussion with Robert Prentner
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Philosophers Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson join Michael Levin for a 70-minute conversation on Platonism, latent space in research, the status of patterns, and how agency, drive and evolution relate to abstract structures.
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Michael Levin talks with Buck Trible about the genetics, morphology and behavior of ant societies, including static allometry of castes, clonal parasites, scaling laws, and what ant colonies reveal about developmental and collective intelligence.
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Michael Levin explores how biological architecture and morphogenesis reveal multi-scale collective intelligence, from bioelectric pattern memory and cancer to biobots, and outlines implications for unconventional computing and expanded notions of minds.
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