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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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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Michael Johnson joins to explore consciousness from the cellular level, discussing cells as qualia pixels, Platonic spaces, bioelectric symmetry breaking, structured water, and intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in biological systems.
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Michael Levin and Murray Shanahan continue their conversation on consciousness, the ontology of mathematical patterns, morphogenesis, embodiment, and how to conceptualize diverse possible minds.
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Adam Safron, Max Shen, and Michael Levin discuss diverse intelligences in the body, how pain may emerge from multi-scale goal-directed processes, and implications for prediction, therapy, placebo, and communication with bodily systems.
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Mathematician David Spivak discusses goal-directedness, emergence, learning in dynamical systems, and conceptual links between mathematical and physical constants with host Michael Levin.
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Pier Luigi Gentili presents chemical AI as an approach to mimicking biological intelligence, discussing metrics, communication with chemical systems, multiscale thermodynamics, and neuromorphic chemical reservoirs in a talk and group discussion.
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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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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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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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Jack Tuszynski presents research on the electrical and electromagnetic properties of microtubules, covering cellular electrodynamics, conductivity–capacitance experiments, possible computational roles, and implications for modeling and synthetic biology.
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