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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, futurist Richard Watson, and biologist Mike Levin hold a working meeting on machines, life, agency, and the continuum of being, examining mechanistic models of humans, AI, souls, emergence, and what sustains meaningful experience.
Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin hold a working meeting on phenotypes, preferences, social emotions, and uncertainty, exploring a minimal unifying model of consciousness, its possible extension beyond the brain, and cellular predictive systems.
Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin hold a working meeting exploring bioelectric interpretation, collective fields, memory, polycomputing, identity, and macroscopic constraints, and discuss conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary publishing challenges.
Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin explore mind, selfhood, and evolution, discussing brain hemispheres, learning, embryos as problem-solvers, goal-directed systems, and the role of values and meaning.
Michael Levin and Iain McGilchrist explore links between brain asymmetry, bioelectricity, primitive biological memory, and how attention, experience, and mind–body relations shape selfhood, meaning, and life.
Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin discuss cell competency, directionality in evolution, goal-directed behavior, individuality and identity, and how representations, language, and measurement relate to objects, selfhood, 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.