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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Michael Levin talks with Iain McGilchrist and Richard Watson about how we explain biological form, covering morphogenesis, memory, mathematical structure, perception, and the limits of purely mechanistic approaches in developmental biology and bioengineering.
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Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss dreams, affect, and artificial minds, exploring brainstem lesions, information encoding, and multilevel causation. They also examine emergence, individuality, consciousness, group minds, time, and agency.
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Mike Levin hosts Chris Fields and Richard Watson for a working meeting on error-correcting codes, multi-scale control, and the tension between reductionism and macro-level causality, touching on observers, oscillatory networks, and transformative communication.
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Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin discuss active inference and the free energy principle, affect and stress regulation, the neural basis of qualia and consciousness, and how global workspace and agency might emerge from brains and simpler systems like bacteria.
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Michael Levin speaks with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson about clinical and philosophical perspectives on consciousness, split-brain research, confabulation, personal identity, and the possible emergence of AI experience.
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Michael Levin and Carlos E. Perez examine the TAME framework, exploring links between intelligence, agency and goal-directed behavior in biological and artificial systems, AGI risks, personhood, and how to preserve a compassionate, diverse future for humanity.
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