Michael Levin presents current research on endogenous bioelectrical networks and their role in developmental bioelectricity, exploring how cellular collective intelligence can be harnessed for regenerative medicine, including birth defects and cancer.
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Michael Levin presents a one-hour talk on diverse intelligence, using morphogenesis and bioelectric signaling to explore how cellular collectives function as cognitive agents, and discussing protocols for recognizing minds, body-plan memories, and synthetic organisms like xenobots.
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Pier Luigi Gentili presents chemical AI as an approach to mimicking biological intelligence, discussing metrics, communication with chemical systems, multiscale thermodynamics, and neuromorphic chemical reservoirs in a talk and group discussion.
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Michael Levin presents a 50-minute talk on bioelectric networks as interfaces to somatic intelligence, exploring their role in regenerative medicine, birth defects, cancer, and how tissues may be modeled as collective intelligences.
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Benjamin Lyons, Mark Blumberg, and Karen Adolph explore motor development and behavior in humans and other animals, linking infant locomotion and problem solving to broader ideas of ecological and developmental systems, emergence, and morphogenetic intelligence.
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Michael Levin discusses diverse forms of biological intelligence, from embryos and cellular bioelectric networks to anthrobots, and outlines emerging frameworks and tools for recognizing, communicating with, and guiding these unconventional minds.
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Michael Levin surveys how intelligence may scale across biological tissues and artificial systems, discussing cells as agents, morphogenesis as cognition, bioelectric control of form, regenerative guidance, anthrobot design, and ethical issues of emerging minds.
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Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng discuss culture as an additional scale of biological organization, examining cultural standardization, multiscale collective agency, moral systems as agents, and how patterns and variational learning shape cultural dynamics.
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