Around-table discussion with Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin exploring affective consciousness, determinism, agency, and how feeling might arise in biological and artificial systems.
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Michael Levin presents research on diverse intelligence and cognition across biological systems, focusing on bioelectric morphogenesis, body patterning, and how these processes inform theories of mind and consciousness.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup
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Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Michael Levin discuss analytic idealism, evolution, agency, meaning, and teleology at the intersection of physics, cognition, and consciousness.
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Michael Levin explores how collective intelligence across cells and tissues shapes the multiscale human, examining bioelectric control, morphological computation, biomedical applications, and implications for evolution, health, and selfhood.
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Michael Levin explores how self-constructing biological systems compute, contrasting them with conventional computer architectures and proposing a new view of morphogenesis, multi-scale selves, and the emergence of cognition in both living organisms and AI.
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Michael Levin and Martin Hanczyc discuss programmable artificial cell droplets and active matter as minimal models of cognition, covering biocompatible synthetic cells, droplet-based memory and computation, emergent goals, and connections between machines and organisms.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin, given to
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A 45-minute talk by Michael Levin explores diverse intelligence through cellular communication, showing how bioelectric patterning and regenerative medicine reveal minds emerging from cells and synthetic life.
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Michael Levin and Aastha Jain Simes talk with physiologist Denis Noble about his systems biology approach, critiques of neo-Darwinism, roles of genetic and epigenetic information, causality, and implications for evolution and medicine.
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Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock join a one-hour discussion on biology, evolution, information, and causation in the philosophy of mind, exploring topics like top-down causation, feeling-based AI, human vs machine motivation, and future moral agents.
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