Aastha Jain Simes and Michael Levin interview cancer researcher Robert Gatenby about evolutionary and physiological approaches to cancer, covering bioelectricity, information thermodynamics, aging, adaptive therapy, biomarkers, and habitat imaging.
Conversations and working meetings
Janet Wiles presents a talk on mapping diverse intelligence spaces through computational models of memory, language and xenobots, followed by a discussion with Michael Levin on development, plasticity, bioelectric signaling, and synthetic bioengineering.
Conversations and working meetings
Michael Levin presents an updated talk on mind-blindness and how to recognize and communicate with agential materials, exploring collective intelligence in cells, morphogenesis, xenobots, and pattern-based views of minds, selves, and goals.
Michael Levin's talks
Michael Levin reviews biological forms and behaviors, goal-directed morphogenesis and homeostasis, xenobots, and Platonic patterns beyond emergence, ending with a speculative model and research program on minds, machines, and interfaces.
Michael Levin's talks
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~35 minute talk on commonalities and differences between
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Michael Levin discusses parallels and differences between biological and technological information processing, covering developmental plasticity, morphogenesis, bioelectric control, and synthetic organisms, and explores their implications for AI and AGI.
Michael Levin's talks
Michael Levin presents research on cognition in body organs outside the brain, exploring morphogenesis as problem-solving, bioelectric memory, and synthetic xenobots, and proposes a Platonic framework linking mind-body relations to mathematics and physics.
Michael Levin's talks
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~1 hour 7 minute talk I gave at
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Michael Levin presents an agency-based framework for detecting and communicating with unconventional minds, exploring bioelectric networks, morphogenesis, xenobots, and minimal agents across biology and machines.
Michael Levin's talks
Watch Episode Here Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a ~54 minute talk given at a workshop on
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Michael Levin discusses how biological systems handle complexity, framing morphogenesis as problem-solving and examining multiscale cognition, bioelectric pattern memory, and agential materials beyond traditional emergence models.
Michael Levin's talks
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