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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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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Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin discuss qualitative Austenian information, biological information processing, metamorphosis, creative information control, and distributed information encoding in living systems.
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Around-table discussion with Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin exploring affective consciousness, determinism, agency, and how feeling might arise in biological and artificial systems.
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Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Michael Levin discuss analytic idealism, evolution, agency, meaning, and teleology at the intersection of physics, cognition, and consciousness.
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Michael Levin and Martin Hanczyc discuss programmable artificial cell droplets and active matter as minimal models of cognition, covering biocompatible synthetic cells, droplet-based memory and computation, emergent goals, and connections between machines and organisms.
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Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with physiologist Denis Noble about his systems biology approach, critiques of neo-Darwinism, roles of genetic and epigenetic information, causality, and implications for evolution and medicine.
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