Michael Levin explores how concepts from cognitive and behavioral science illuminate morphogenesis, including bioelectric pattern encoding, goal-directed body remodeling, and synthetic living systems like xenobots, and considers biomedical applications.
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Michael Levin outlines a framework for unconventional intelligences, using morphogenesis, bioelectric pattern control, and systems like xenobots and the MomBot platform to explore memory beyond the brain, multi-scale cognition, and ethical futures.
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Michael Levin outlines a brief argument that biological systems inhabit a structured Platonic space of mathematical patterns and sketches a research program to study minds and interfaces in this pattern space.
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Michael Levin explores non-brain-based intelligence, from cellular and anatomical cognition to bioelectric communication, xenobots, and how to build tools for understanding and relating to diverse minds.
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Michael Levin explains how cells and tissues store physiological memories that shape patient-specific responses to treatment, proposing a hardware–software view of biology and illustrating bioelectric reprogramming with two-headed planarian flatworms.
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Michael Levin introduces developmental bioelectricity as the information medium of collective cell intelligence, showing how modulating bioelectric signals can reprogram growth, prevent cancer, and guide regeneration without changing DNA.
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Michael Levin explores how embodied minds and biological patterning give rise to apparent selves, covering mind continua, bioelectric morphogenesis, metamorphosis, synthetic organisms like xenobots, and links between cognition, mathematics and contemplative science.
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Michael Levin presents a keynote on how living tissues function as agential materials, exploring bioelectric anatomical intelligence, Xenobots, and a new embodied robot scientist that bridges human researchers and cellular systems.
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Michael Levin discusses how bioelectric signals enable top-down control from cognition to cellular and molecular processes, framing cells as agential materials and exploring regeneration, anatomical patterning, and synthetic life.
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Michael Levin discusses intrinsic motivation across biological, synthetic, and hybrid systems, exploring how goal-directed behavior emerges, can be modeled and reprogrammed, and what this reveals about agency across scales.
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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.
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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.
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