A 54-minute conversation with researchers Katrina Schleisman and David Burke exploring Platonism in math and physics, patterns and learning, emergence and affordances, and how memory, signals, and chance shape diverse forms of intelligence.
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Philosopher David Resnik joins to discuss the Platonic Space model, connecting morphogenesis and latent space, Platonism and science, emergence and explanation, and the role of mathematical constraints in evolution.
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A 57-minute discussion with Elan Barenholtz on whether language can be autonomous in brains, AI models, and other systems, touching on virtual governance, mathematical structures beyond physics, emergent patterns, and future experiments.
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A 52-minute roundtable with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields exploring autism, trauma, and ketamine-assisted therapy, and connecting these to concepts in somatic biology, neurodiversity, brain models, and future experimental approaches.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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