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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss the role of observers in physics and consciousness, the engineering of sentient and affective artificial agents, and how bonds and shared agency might give rise to collective minds.
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