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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Michael Levin presents a philosophical and experimental case for teleology in biology, exploring goal-directed behavior in cells and tissues, bioelectric pattern memories, morphogenesis, and the creation of novel living machines.
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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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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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