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Thoughtforms Life — 183 episodes
"Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs" by Martin Picard
"Aging, goal-directedness, and bioelectricity" by Michael Levin
Computationalism and consciousness with Nic Rouleau, Jaan Aru, and Borjan Milinkovic.
Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space by Michael Levin
Platonic Space discussion 5
Platonic Space discussion 4
Discussion #1 with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson
A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash
Discussion: Lisa Maroski, Michael Levin, Richard Watson
Discussion: Richard Watson, Alexey Tolchinsky, Mark Solms, Michael Levin, and Karl Friston
Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 2: neuroscience, memory transfer, aging of cognition, and more
Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 1: "Some thoughts on the mind as material"
Conversation 2 with Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, and Karen Quigley
Cancer: mitochondria and metabolism - a discussion with Thomas Seyfried and his group
"On Biological and Artificial Consciousness" by Borjan Milinkovic and Jaan Aru
Platonic Space discussion 3
Conversation with Darren Iammarino #1
"The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis" by Michael Levin
Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium
Conversation 1 with Mijail Serruya, Alessandro Napoli, and Wesley Clawson
Conversation 1 w/ Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley
"Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral" by Michael Levin
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences in Developmental Biology and Biomedicine”
Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke
Conversation with David Resnik 1
Discussion #1 with Elan Barenholtz
Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields
Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space
Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak 2
Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more
"Entropic motivation and the roots of agency"by Alex Kiefer
"Unconventional Embodiments: model systems & strategies addressing mind-blindness" by Michael Levin
"Platonic Space: brief argument and research agenda" by Michael Levin
Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with unconventional beings by Michael Levin
Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Eli Sennesh, and Jordan Theriault
"What the physiological software of life means for patient-specific interventions" by Michael Levin
Why bioelectricity in morphogenesis matters: an introduction in 3 slides by Michael Levin
"The biology of apparent selves" by Michael Levin
Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Patricia Silveira 1
"The Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist" by Michael Levin
"Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology" by Michael Levin
Bioelectricity: A Bridge Between Physics and Cognition, by Way of Biology
Intrinsic Motivation in Evolved, Engineered, and Hybrid Systems
Discussion between Elliot Murphy and Michael Levin 1
Discussion with Chris Fields and Julian Gough #1
Discussion with Jordi Vallverdú #1
Aastha Jain and I interview Robert Gatenby
"Mapping Diverse Intelligence Spaces" by Janet Wiles - discussion
Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials by Michael Levin
Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin
Biological and Technological Information Processing
Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael Levin
Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin
Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials
Engineering Agential Materials
Discussion with Michael Johnson
Unconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology
Discussion with Murray Shanahan
Discussion between Adam Safron, Max Shen, and Michael Levin
Discussion with David Spivak
Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic Intelligence
Against Mind-Blindness
Chemical AI: An Unconventional Strategy for Mimicking Biological Intelligence - Pier Luigi Gentili
Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative Medicine
Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Mark Blumberg, and Karen Adolph: Motor Development and Cognition
Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences
Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond
Culture as an Additional Scale of Biological Organisation with Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng
Ethics and the New Biology
Conversation with Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky
Discussion with Michael Johnson
How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine
Uncovering Electrodynamic Design Principles of Living Cells
Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
Conversation with Lauren Ross
Interview with Azra Raza on a New Theory and Practice of Cancer
Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective
Cellular Automata and Models of Health and Disease
Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
Bioelectric Networks: An Interface to Engineering with the Agential Material of Life
Aastha Jain Simes and I Interview Pamela Lyon
Discussion with Mayli Mertens on Molecular Placebos and Bioelectricity
Biological and Technological Information Processing: Commonalities, Differences and Implications
Conversation 2 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
Conversation with Richard Watson and Leo Caves
A Conversation with Mark Solms on Life and Mind
Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
Discussion with Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson
Conversation with Buck Trible on His Work on Static Allometry of Ant Castes and Emergent Cognition
Unconventional Biology, Minimal Models of Intelligence, and Bio-Inspired Computing
Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional Intelligence
Conversation Between Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Conversation 1 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
Novel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: Diverse Intelligence and the Study of Consciousness
Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - Conversation
Collective Intelligence of the Body: The Multiscale Architecture of Selves
Self-Constructing Bodies, Collective Minds: The Intersection of CS, Cognitive Bio, and Philosophy
Discussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter Research
A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Denis Noble
Embodied Minds: Discovering Diverse Intelligence through the Lens of Biomedicine
Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock
The Bioelectric Interface to the Intelligence of the Body: The Future of Biomedicine
Unconventional Cognition Through the Lens of Cellular Collective Intelligence in Morphogenesis
The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence: A Roadmap for Cancer Medicine
The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: A Model System for Basal Cognition
Discussion with Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney, and Ben Hartl on Evolution, Development, Generative Models
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Mustafa Djamgoz, Foundational Contributor to Cancer Bioelectricity
Conversation 1 with Alex Schmidt and Alexey Tolchinsky
Discussion with Richard Watson and Josh Bongard
Conversation between Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and I on Irruption Theory, Polycomputing, and Minds
Conversation Between Josh Bongard, Atoosa Parsa, Richard Watson, and I
Discussion With Tim Jackson, Karl Friston, and Chris Fields
An Active Inference Model of Collective Intelligence by R. Kaufman, P. Gupta, and J. Taylor
The Mind of the Body: A Window into Embodiment and Our Future
Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock
Prices as Cognitive Glue by Benjamin Lyons
Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
Discussion with Ricard Sole
Economics, Deep Learning, and Basal Cognition
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Ken Robinson, a Great Figure in Developmental Bioelectricity
Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
Conversation between Joscha Bach, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Discussion on Mortal Computations with Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, and Chris Fields
Tom Froese and Michael Levin Discuss Tom's Irruption Theory
Discussion with Michael Pollan of New Ideas on Memories and Selves
Biorobotics: Engineering with Agential Materials
Where Minds Come From: The Scaling of Collective Intelligence, and What It Means for AI and You
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Min Zhao, a Leader in the Role of Bioelectricity in Wound Healing
A Conversation with Alison Hanson on Cognitive Science and Her Trajectory in Neurobiology
What Can Worms and Frogs Teach Us About Collective Intelligence?
Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Richard Nuccitelli, a Great Figure in Developmental Bioelectricity
Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
A Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin
Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis
Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, Meeting
A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin Discuss Active Inference and Algorithms
Mark Solms and Michael Levin Discuss Explicit and Implicit Behavioral Drives
Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology
Bioelectricity as Cognitive Glue: From Diverse Intelligence to Regenerative Medicine (~1 hour talk)
Conversation between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin
A 1 hour Lecture on Bioelectricity for a Department of Parasitology/Immunology by Michael Levin
Conversation #2 Between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
Bioelectricity as the Software of Life: From Cognitive Glue to Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: Bioelectricity Underlies the Collective Intelligence of Cellular Swarms
Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine
Conversation with Mark Solms and Chris Fields
Bioelectrical Signals Reveal, Induce, and Normalize Cancer
Conversation with Chris Fields and Richard Watson
Conversation With Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
My Talk on Consciousness at the Science of Consciousness 2023
Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mile Levin
Conversation #1 between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
Conversation #1 between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
Conversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells
Talk for Robosoft 2023
Working Meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson
Chat with Carlos E. Perez about the TAME Framework: Intelligence and Agency
Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
Conversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
Engineering with Agential Materials: From Evolution to Biological Robotics, via Bioelectricity
Beyond the Brain: Multiscale Diverse Intelligence as Biological Inspiration for AI
Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Intelligence of the Body
Diverse Intelligence
Michael Levin Talk on Bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium
Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
Discussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin
Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
1 Hour TAME Talk
Developmental Bioelectricity as a Precursor to Neurobiology
At the Intersection of AI & Developmental Biology: Intelligence Beyond the Brain
Cancer Talk by Michael Levin (2021)
Tame