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1. Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin

   31 oktober 2026 · 35 min

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   This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology and computer science of inspiration within and without us" that I gave right before Chris Fields, at a recent philosophy conference. Still working on different ways to present the concept of patterns as behavioral policies, their origin, and applications of this idea. Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Policies of navigation

   (04:40) Biological free lunches

   (10:15) Molecular learning ratchets

   (14:00) Competencies of xenobots

   (20:48) Latent space of patterns

   (27:12) Embodied mathematical minds

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2. "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a continuum of cognition (& consciousness) by Michael Levin

   17 oktober 2026 · 40 min

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   This is a ~39 minute talk titled "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a perspective on a continuum of cognition (& consciousness)" for a consciousness conference about our laboratory model systems relevant to the study of minds, my Platonic Space model, and a few opinions on consciousness (at the end, since I don't have any strong claims about consciousness per se). Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Continuum of novel minds

   (07:11) Molecular networks and learning

   (11:42) Xenobots and anthrobots

   (18:25) Paying for competencies

   (28:21) The space of patterns

   (33:28) Rethinking nature of consciousness

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3. "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" by Michael Levin

   16 oktober 2026 · 36 min

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   This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" I gave at a recent conference. Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) The nature of inspiration

   (15:51) Xenobots and novel minds

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4. Bio-inspired technology? #science #biology #platonicspace

   15 oktober 2026 · 3 min

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   This #short is an excerpt from Michael Levin's talk "Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4 Lees meer

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   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Patterns and free lunches

   (01:01) Questioning biological uniqueness

   (01:48) Competencies beyond the code

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5. What are we? Concepts for biology and AI #science #biology #diverseintelligence

   13 oktober 2026 · 2 min

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   This #short is an excerpt from Michael Levin's talk "Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4 Lees meer

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   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Defining life and machines

   (00:44) Reductionists versus organicists

   (01:35) Rethinking machine metaphors

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6. "Mind-Body Interface: an experimental and Clinical Perspective" by Michael Levin and Karina Kofman

   11 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 5 min

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   This is a ~1 hour and 4 minutes talk + Q&A that my student and collaborator Karina Kofman (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karina-Kofman-2) and I gave to the Society for Mind-Matter Research as a keynote talk in acceptance of the best paper for 2025 award (the paper is: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/mm/2025/00000023/00000001/art00003). Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Mind and body interface

   (03:44) Embryonic individuation and plasticity

   (21:35) Clinical cases and anomalies

   (41:11) Platonic space of competencies

   (51:39) Audience questions and answers

   (57:19) Categories of platonic forms

   (01:01:18) Patterns and physical embodiment

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7. "Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: communicating with unconventional minds" by Michael Levin

   9 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

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   This is a ~1 hour talk given at a conference on the philosophy and future of neuroscience, so I oriented it around extending the concept of neuroscience: not the study of neural phenomena, but more broadly around how neuroscience of neural and non-neural cells shows a model system for understanding collective intelligence, and using morphogenesis as a stepping stone model system to show us how to do behavioral experiments in unconventional cognitive agents. I didn't have time for any of the biomedical applications of these ideas (lots of other talks about that) but alluded at the end to some deep questions around the properties of novel cognitive beings and our framework for addressing it. There was a really good Q&A after which will be put up by the original conference organization when they post their version. I'll link it here when it's up. Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Defining unconventional minds

   (10:05) Scaling cognitive light cones

   (15:59) Morphogenesis as collective intelligence

   (25:46) Bioelectricity as cognitive glue

   (36:56) Reprogramming biological pattern memories

   (48:59) Xenobots and synthetic life

   (55:15) Platonic origins of order

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8. Discussion with Marsha Hewitt (Platonic Space and related ideas)

   24 september 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

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   This is a ~1 hour 3 minute conversation with Marsha Hewitt (https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/profiles/hewitt-marsha/), who wanted to clarify some issues around the Platonic Space and related ideas from the perspective of her teaching students in her philosophy and psychoanalytic psychology of religion class. Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Intersecting philosophy and science

   (09:52) Ethics of artificial minds

   (15:47) Structured space of patterns

   (31:20) Embodiment as a filter

   (39:36) Dualism versus monism debate

   (49:51) Agency in developmental biology

   (56:25) Communicating with alien minds

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9. "Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis" by Michael Levin

   22 september 2026 · 22 min

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   This is a ~21-minute talk titled "Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis" that I gave to the Santa Fe Institute (https://santafe.edu/) conference on "Symbiogenesis in the Age of Machine intelligence" (https://www.santafe.edu/events/symbiogenesis-in-the-age-of-machine-intelligence-2027", September 17 and 18, 2026) Lees meer

   CHAPTERS:

   (00:00) Space of embodied minds

   (03:03) Rewriting bioelectric set points

   (06:08) Xenobots and novel beings

   (12:04) Molecular networks and learning

   (15:26) Mathematics as information source

   (18:38) Exploring anatomical morphospace

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10. Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence by Michael Levin

    21 september 2026 · 53 min

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    "Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence: what we know and don't know about embodied minds" - a 53-minute talk I gave on what the field of diverse intelligence has to say to AI research (to an audience of non-experts in AI, so it's not very technical on that end). I tried to go a little slower and explain more of the basics and logic. Lees meer

    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00) Defining life and machines

    (04:16) Expanding the Eden view

    (07:41) Collective cellular intelligence

    (15:16) Bioelectricity and goal memories

    (22:08) Xenobots and novel beings

    (31:03) Causal emergence and math

    (41:58) Robotics and cognitive prosthetics

    (47:48) Communicating with diverse minds

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