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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Clinical psychologist Alexey Tolchinsky and neuropsychiatrist Thomas Pollak discuss how rejuvenation therapies might affect cognition and memory, and explore experimental strategies using Anthrobots, xenobots, and cellular models of psychiatric disease.
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Philosopher of science Lauren Ross discusses how scientists use explanations and causation, covering mechanisms and levels in biology, emergence and control, pragmatism versus metaphysics, and the role of mathematical and mechanistic models.
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Oncologist Azra Raza discusses her clinical journey and a new first-cell paradigm for cancer, covering stress, cell fusion, immortality, personalized stents, limits of current therapies, and how patients can navigate a cancer diagnosis.
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Michael Levin speaks with Willem Nielsen from the Wolfram Institute about using cellular automata to model health and disease. They discuss robust automata, planarian morphogenesis, minimal competent models, and bioelectric control mechanisms.
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Michael Levin and Iain McGilchrist discuss Levin's Platonic Space paper, exploring how abstract forms might shape biological processes, consciousness, and evolution. Topics include panpsychism, morphogenesis, xenobots, ethics, and the role of hemispheric thinking.
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Aastha Jain Simes and the host talk with philosopher of cognition Pamela Lyon about the biogenic approach to mind, covering microbial and slime mold cognition, autopoiesis, stress and creativity, and implications for biology, AI, and Eastern perspectives.
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