Michael Levin gives a 30-minute lecture to an undergraduate ethics class on how new biology research on mind spectra, cellular intelligence, bioelectric control, and anthrobots raises novel ethical questions about life and embodiment.
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A one-hour talk on developmental bioelectricity and its role as a medium of memory, morphogenesis, and regeneration, drawing analogies to brain function. Topics include genomic control, pattern homeostasis, cancer, electroceuticals, and novel synthetic organisms.
Michael Levin's talks
Michael Levin gives a concise overview of how biology, computation, and cognition intersect, covering collective intelligence in morphogenesis, biological problem solving, evolution, novel goal-directed systems, and a space of possible minds.
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In this seminar, Michael Levin outlines a cognitive approach to bioengineering and regenerative medicine, viewing morphogenesis as behavior of cellular collective intelligence and using bioelectric signaling to reprogram anatomical patterning and regeneration.
Michael Levin's talks
A 1-hour talk comparing biological and current technological information-processing systems, covering topics such as morphogenesis, unconventional and collective cellular intelligence, bioelectric networks, and how these ideas inform biomedicine, AI, and ethics.
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Michael Levin explores how biological architecture and morphogenesis reveal multi-scale collective intelligence, from bioelectric pattern memory and cancer to biobots, and outlines implications for unconventional computing and expanded notions of minds.
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This talk explores how neuroscience concepts and somatic bioelectricity can explain development, morphogenesis, cancer, and unconventional intelligence, highlighting links between cognitive science, body patterning, evolution, and questions about minds, memory, and ethics.
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Michael Levin presents research on diverse intelligence and cognition across biological systems, focusing on bioelectric morphogenesis, body patterning, and how these processes inform theories of mind and consciousness.
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Michael Levin explores how collective intelligence across cells and tissues shapes the multiscale human, examining bioelectric control, morphological computation, biomedical applications, and implications for evolution, health, and selfhood.
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Michael Levin explores how self-constructing biological systems compute, contrasting them with conventional computer architectures and proposing a new view of morphogenesis, multi-scale selves, and the emergence of cognition in both living organisms and AI.
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A 45-minute talk by Michael Levin explores diverse intelligence through cellular communication, showing how bioelectric patterning and regenerative medicine reveal minds emerging from cells and synthetic life.
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Michael Levin presents a 40-minute lecture on how the body's bioelectric networks underlie development, regeneration, and disease, exploring applications in organ repair, cancer treatment, and new bioengineered anthrobots as a future direction for medicine.
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