Biological and Technological Information Processing
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"Biological and Technological Information Processing" by Michael Levin
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.
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Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: a diverse intelligence research program - Michael Levin
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.
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Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin
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"Against Mind-blindness: recognizing & communicating w/ agential materials & beyond" - Michael Levin
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.
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Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials
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"Beyond complexity & emergence: taming multiscale competency in agential materials" by Michael Levin
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.
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Engineering Agential Materials
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"Engineering Agential Materials" by Michael Levin
Michael Levin presents a top-down framework for engineering agential materials in biohybrid robotics, covering bioelectric control, cognitive neuroscience principles, xenobots’ responses to sound, and training intelligent cell collectives.
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Discussion with Michael Johnson
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Discussion with Michael Johnson 2
Michael Johnson joins to explore consciousness from the cellular level, discussing cells as qualia pixels, Platonic spaces, bioelectric symmetry breaking, structured water, and intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in biological systems.
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"Unconventional Selves - a diverse intelligence perspective on consciousness" by Michael Levin
Michael Levin discusses a continuum view of minds and consciousness, using examples from morphogenesis, bioelectric patterning, planarian regeneration, and xenobots to explore diverse intelligences and synthetic agency.
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