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.
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.
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.
Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Michael Levin discuss analytic idealism, evolution, agency, meaning, and teleology at the intersection of physics, cognition, and consciousness.
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.
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.
Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock join a one-hour discussion on biology, evolution, information, and causation in the philosophy of mind, exploring topics like top-down causation, feeling-based AI, human vs machine motivation, and future moral agents.
Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney and Ben Hartl discuss how connectionist generative models can illuminate the genome’s role in evolution, development, and the control of form and function, touching on planarian regeneration, bioelectricity, robustness and multiscale causation.
Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with cancer bioelectricity researcher Mustafa Djamgoz about ion channels, metastasis, targeting cancer sodium channels, and how bioelectricity may contribute to cancer treatment and longer survival.
Clinical psychologists Alex Schmidt and Alexey Tolchinsky discuss trauma, PTSD, somatic memory, dissociation, and protective mechanisms, linking psychotherapy to developmental biology and addressing treatment in incarcerated and neurodiverse populations.
An hour-long conversation with Richard Watson and Josh Bongard exploring concepts of agency, co-located and energetic observers, polycomputing, developmental attractors, symmetry, quantum analogies, and nested multiscale coherence in evolution.
Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and Michael Levin discuss irruption theory, polycomputing, and the mind-body relationship, exploring intrinsic computation, observer realism, and the roles of noise, values, and multiscale dynamics in physics and AI.
Exploring the unseen forces of life, cognition, and emergence — with Professor Michael Levin. Conversations on morphogenesis, bioelectricity, synthetic biology, and the nature of intelligence.