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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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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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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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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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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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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