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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Adam Omary talks with Roy Baumeister and Michael Levin about collective intelligence, self-organization, and how emergent group minds and multi-scale order may inform understanding of social and economic systems.
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Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin explore how gene regulatory networks store memory in trained yet static pathways and what this reveals about learning and mind-reading technologies. They discuss attractor dynamics, semantic ambiguity, embodiment, and limits of decoding internal states.
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Michael Levin, Mark Solms, and Chris Fields explore how novel behaviors arise in problem-solving, whether explanted brain tissue and hybrid robots can be conscious, and how to define sleep in artificial and unconventional agents.
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Chris Fields, Richard Watson and Michael Levin explore error correction, decoherence and observers, multiscale resonance in life, and Patrick Grim’s time-extended logic for handling contradictions and self-reference as fractal structures.
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Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin explore concepts of self and temporally extended experience, free will and responsibility, how learning systems generalize beyond data, alien forms of mind, and what extreme cases of brain structure reveal about consciousness.
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Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore brain hemispheres, symmetry and asymmetry, embryonic development, teleology in life and machines, resonance, and how algorithms, embodiment, and plants can exhibit learning and agency.
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