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Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
28 maart 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
This is a ~1.5 hour discussion between cognitive scientist Don Hoffman (https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/HoffmanPubs.html) and evolutionary biologist/computer scientist Richard Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/), on evolution, physics, time, and the nature of reality. Lees meer
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A Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin
16 maart 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
This is a ~1 hour 20 minute working meeting conversation between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and myself; we touch on topics of mind, Selfhood, Platonic spaces, and other ways in which the emerging science of Diverse Intelligence speaks to greater transpersonal issues. Lees meer
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Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis
15 maart 2024 · 49 min
This is about a ~45 minute talk by me, focusing specifically on parallels between morphogenesis and cognitive/behavioral science (given to a neuroscience audience). Lees meer
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Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
5 maart 2024 · 49 min
This is a 30 minute talk on Hopfield networks solving propositional satisfiability problems, by N. Weber, W. Koch, O. Erdem, and T. Froese (from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan), followed by a 30 minute discussion of potential applicability of this technique to linking the beliefs and preferences of an agent to a controller that can be used to implement them behaviorally. Lees meer
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Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, Meeting
24 februari 2024 · 52 min
This is a ~1 hour working meeting between Timothy Jackson (https://theconversation.com/profiles/timothy-n-w-jackson-115702) and myself, discussing our collaboration on how evolutionary and clinical toxinology connects to diverse intelligence and biomedical hacking. Lees meer
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A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
22 februari 2024 · 55 min
This is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students. Lees meer
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Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin Discuss Active Inference and Algorithms
4 februari 2024 · 54 min
This is a 1-hour discussion meeting between Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and I talking about how Karl's active inference ideas apply to some work on unexpected behavior in sorting algorithms (https://thoughtforms.life/what-do-algorithms-want-a-new-paper-on-the-emergence-of-surprising-behavior-in-the-most-unexpected-places/). Lees meer
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Mark Solms and Michael Levin Discuss Explicit and Implicit Behavioral Drives
3 februari 2024 · 55 min
A 1-hour conversation about our algorithms data (https://thoughtforms.life/what-do-algorithms-want-a-new-paper-on-the-emergence-of-surprising-behavior-in-the-most-unexpected-places/) and how it relates to behavioral policies in minimal and not-so-minimal biological agents. Lees meer
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Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
7 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
This is a ~1 hour-long discussion meeting with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman. Their two papers referenced in the discussion are:
Stu's: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0063
Kate's: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.7453/gahmj.2013.058 Lees meerCONNECT WITH ME:
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Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology
25 november 2023 · 30 min
A 30-minute talk (from April 2023) by Michael Levin given to an audience interested in longevity and the future of biotechnology research. Lees meer
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(00:00) Introduction & Design Challenge
(04:00) Genome vs. Anatomical Form
(08:00) Inverse Problem & Top-Down
(13:00) Cellular Collective Intelligence
(17:00) Regeneration & Bioelectricity
(22:00) Reading/Writing Bioelectrical Patterns
(26:00) Permanent Morphological Changes
(31:00) Cancer & Synthetic Life
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Bioelectricity as Cognitive Glue: From Diverse Intelligence to Regenerative Medicine (~1 hour talk)
21 november 2023 · 1 uur 16 min
A talk by Michael Levin (with Q&A at the end) given at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Colloquium given in November 2023 (not May as the title screen says). Lees meer
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Conversation between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin
7 november 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
This is a 1-hour discussion between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin on the topics of collective intelligence and possible relevance to economic/social issues above the level of the single individual. Lees meer
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A 1 hour Lecture on Bioelectricity for a Department of Parasitology/Immunology by Michael Levin
5 november 2023 · 59 min
This is a 1 hour talk on bioelectricity with a special slant toward microbiology/immunology/parasitology. More information is at
https://thoughtforms.life/?p=1722
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Conversation #2 Between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
31 oktober 2023 · 57 min
Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I discuss how memory is stored in trained but static pathway models, and what this means for memory and mind-reading technologies in general. Lees meer
See https://thoughtforms.life/but-where-is-the-memory-a-discussion-of-training-gene-regulatory-networks-and-its-implications/ for more information and background on this topic.
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Bioelectricity as the Software of Life: From Cognitive Glue to Regenerative Medicine
13 oktober 2023 · 57 min
This is a talk I gave (1 hour) to a computer science and robotics audience. Lees meer
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Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: Bioelectricity Underlies the Collective Intelligence of Cellular Swarms
6 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
This is a talk I gave to a neuroscience audience for the Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. 1 hr 4 minutes. Lees meer
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Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine
29 september 2023 · 51 min
This is a ~50 minute talk by Michael Levin to a clinical audience about bioelectricity and why it represents a new approach to medicine. Lees meer
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Conversation with Mark Solms and Chris Fields
1 september 2023 · 56 min
Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss what novel behaviors are (in the context of problem-solving in novel circumstances), consciousness in explanted brain pieces, and sleep in unconventional agents. Lees meer
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Bioelectrical Signals Reveal, Induce, and Normalize Cancer
15 augustus 2023 · 52 min
This is a ~1 hour talk by Mike Levin on the bioelectrics of cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and collective intelligence of morphogenesis. Lees meer
The full title is: "Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer: a perspective on cancer as a disease of dynamic geometry"
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Conversation with Chris Fields and Richard Watson
12 juni 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
Working meeting between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I where we discuss error correction (and who decides what's an error), quantum aspects generalized to the larger world, decoherence, observers, and Patrick Grim's fascinating work on adding a time dimension to logic to enable contradictions and self-referential paradoxes to be manipulated as fractal structures. Lees meer
Chris Fields: https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
Richard Watson: https://www.richardawatson.com/Patrick Grim: http://www.pgrim...
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Conversation With Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
5 juni 2023 · 58 min
We discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history and anticipation, free will and responsibility, what learning (generalizing) agents bring to the table beyond the input data, truly alien aliens, and whether your brain is really necessary (e.g., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023). Lees meer
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
3 juni 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more. Lees meer
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My Talk on Consciousness at the Science of Consciousness 2023
31 mei 2023 · 34 min
A 30-minute talk on implications of my work for the study of consciousness (fyi, I do not offer a new theory of consciousness or try to support/rule out any of the existing ToC's; I talk about reasons to suspect consciousness in other parts of bodies than the brain and other diverse embodiments). Lees meer
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mile Levin
30 mei 2023 · 59 min
Conversation between Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and I. Mostly about the nature of explanation in developmental biology and bioengineering. Lees meer
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Conversation #1 between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
16 mei 2023 · 58 min
Discussion between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and I about brains, agency, and more. Lees meer
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Conversation #1 between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
11 mei 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Working meeting #1 with Chris Fields and Richard Watson. We discuss error-correcting codes (a little; more next time), reductionism, multi-scale controls, and more. Lees meer
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Conversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
4 mei 2023 · 56 min
A meeting between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and I: active inference, qualia, consciousness, brains, bacteria, and more. Lees meer
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Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells
1 mei 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
A talk I have at the University of Hertfordshire Lees meer
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Talk for Robosoft 2023
21 april 2023 · 46 min
Biology hacking itself, Xenobots, and morphogenesis Lees meer
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Working Meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson
18 april 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
Mike Gazzaniga, Richard Watson, and I discuss split brains, minds, confabulation, and consciousness. Lees meer
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Chat with Carlos E. Perez about the TAME Framework: Intelligence and Agency
15 april 2023 · 40 min
We discuss what the relationship is between intelligence and agency (since my definition of intelligence focuses on competency for goal-directed problem-solving), AI, biological evolution, and what is important about maintaining humanity in the deep future. Lees meer
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
12 april 2023 · 1 uur
A working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum of being. Lees meer
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/The poem I was referring to half-way through is this one:
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for y...CONNECT WITH ME:
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
2 april 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more. Lees meer
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Conversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
22 maart 2023 · 58 min
This is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin Lees meer
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
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Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
10 maart 2023 · 52 min
A working meeting between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin Lees meer
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
20 februari 2023 · 58 min
A working meeting between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and myself discussing issues of mind, selfhood, evolution, neuroscience, etc. Lees meer
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Engineering with Agential Materials: From Evolution to Biological Robotics, via Bioelectricity
16 februari 2023 · 1 uur
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Beyond the Brain: Multiscale Diverse Intelligence as Biological Inspiration for AI
14 februari 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
This is a talk I gave to an audience of computer scientists and neuroscientists, interested in AI, consciousness, and the brain. Lees meer
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Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Intelligence of the Body
5 februari 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
This is a talk given to the Department of Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology Madras in January 2023. Lees meer
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Diverse Intelligence
28 januari 2023 · 1 uur 21 min
A talk on "Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional biological, engineered, and hybrid agents" by Michael Levin Lees meer
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Michael Levin Talk on Bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium
27 januari 2023 · 56 min
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Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
27 januari 2023 · 56 min
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Discussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin
27 januari 2023 · 57 min
Discussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin Lees meer
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Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
27 januari 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin Lees meer
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Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
27 januari 2023 · 56 min
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1 Hour TAME Talk
27 december 2021 · 1 uur 10 min
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Developmental Bioelectricity as a Precursor to Neurobiology
9 november 2021 · 50 min
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At the Intersection of AI & Developmental Biology: Intelligence Beyond the Brain
29 september 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
A talk on intelligence beyond the brain Lees meer
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Cancer Talk by Michael Levin (2021)
17 september 2021 · 45 min
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Tame
5 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 10 min
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