Cognitive scientist Tom Froese joins Michael Levin to discuss Froese's Irruption theory, exploring embodied minds, agency, mind–body interaction, computational emergence, and implications for experiments, clinical applications, seizures, entropy, and free will.
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Michael Levin and Michael Pollan discuss ideas from a recent paper on polycomputing in biology, metamorphosis, flexible repair, and how selves, memory, agency, ethics, and consciousness may span multiple scales and relate to AI.
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Aastha Jain Simes and Michael Levin interview Min Zhao about his path from trauma surgery to pioneering research on ion currents, electric guidance of cell migration, and the role of bioelectricity in wound healing and developmental repair.
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Neurobiologist Ali Hanson discusses her path into neuroscience and presents research on neural activity and self-organizing behavior in Hydra, touching on molecules vs bioelectricity and the challenges of studying complex biological systems.
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Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with developmental bioelectricity pioneer Richard Nuccitelli about inventing the vibrating probe, how cells use electric cues, and the evolution of bioelectric approaches to cancer therapy and development.
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Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and evolutionary biologist/computer scientist Richard Watson discuss cognition-first evolution, resonant agency, Markov kernels, trace logic, and how these ideas relate to physics, time, and consciousness.
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John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin explore mind, selfhood, Platonic spaces, and diverse intelligences, connecting cognitive models and meaning crisis to questions of identity, agency, practice, and compassionate personhood.
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This episode features a talk by N. Weber and colleagues on using Hopfield networks to solve propositional satisfiability problems, followed by a discussion on connecting agents' logical beliefs and preferences to embodied control and behavior.
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Timothy Jackson and Michael Levin discuss how evolutionary and clinical toxinology connect to chemical ecology, psychedelics, and diverse intelligences, outlining a project on using toxins and psychoactive molecules to influence development and healing.
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Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin explore how active inference and free energy ideas illuminate surprising behavior in sorting algorithms, covering distributed intelligence, clustering, teleology, and hidden goals.
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Mark Solms joins Michael Levin to explore how algorithmic behavior in simple systems relates to explicit and implicit cognition, delayed gratification, emergent clustering, and basal cognition in living agents.
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Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman join a one-hour discussion on emergent cognition, emotion and bioelectricity, bottom-up collective intelligence, and Kantian wholes. They relate these ideas to self-construction, information, and bioelectric selves.
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