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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In this 1-hour talk on the Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME), the speaker examines how bioelectricity coordinates cells into collective intelligences, framing morphogenesis, memory, xenobots, and future bodies as problem solving in morphospace.
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The episode examines developmental bioelectricity as a foundation for brains, cognition, and behavior, from tadpoles that see with eyes on their tails to cells navigating morphospace and storing pattern memories. It also explores xenobots and hybrid organisms as probes of intelligence.
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Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes A talk on intelligence beyond the brain CONNECT WITH ME: * Podcast
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Michael Levin discusses multi-scale bioelectric intelligence, regeneration, and the continuum of cognition, linking developmental biology with AI, embodiment, and forms of intelligence beyond brains and individual organisms.
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Michael Levin discusses cancer as a failure of bioelectric communication in cell networks, explaining how tissues encode anatomical control and how computationally guided ion channel therapies might diagnose, normalize, and reprogram tumor growth.
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Dr. Michael Levin introduces TAME, a framework for comparing intelligence in animals, collectives, machines, and possible alien minds. He explores morphogenesis as collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and how bioengineering reshapes ideas of self and consciousness.
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