Thoughtforms Life
By Michael Levin
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Episodes: 179
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A podcast by Professor Michael Levin exploring the frontiers of biology, cognition, and emergence. Engage in conversations about morphogenesis, bioelectricity, and synthetic life — and uncover how intelligence and agency emerge from the most fundamental levels of nature.
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Platonic Space discussion 5
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May 29, 2026 |
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Platonic Space discussion 4
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May 25, 2026 |
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Discussion #1 with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson
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May 19, 2026 |
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A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Discussion: Lisa Maroski, Michael Levin, Richard Watson
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Discussion: Richard Watson, Alexey Tolchinsky, Mark Solms, Michael Levin, and Karl Friston
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 1: "Some thoughts on the mind as material"
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 2: neuroscience, memory transfer, aging of cognition, and more
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Conversation 2 with Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, and Karen Quigley
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Cancer: mitochondria and metabolism - a discussion with Thomas Seyfried and his group
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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"On Biological and Artificial Consciousness" by Borjan Milinkovic and Jaan Aru
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Platonic Space discussion 3
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Conversation with Darren Iammarino #1
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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"The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis" by Michael Levin
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Conversation 1 with Mijail Serruya, Alessandro Napoli, and Wesley Clawson
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Conversation 1 w/ Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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"Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral" by Michael Levin
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences in Developmental Biology and Biomedicine”
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Conversation with David Resnik 1
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Discussion #1 with Elan Barenholtz
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak 2
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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"Entropic motivation and the roots of agency"by Alex Kiefer
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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"Unconventional Embodiments: model systems & strategies addressing mind-blindness" by Michael Levin
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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"Platonic Space: brief argument and research agenda" by Michael Levin
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with unconventional beings by Michael Levin
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Eli Sennesh, and Jordan Theriault
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Why bioelectricity in morphogenesis matters: an introduction in 3 slides by Michael Levin
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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"What the physiological software of life means for patient-specific interventions" by Michael Levin
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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"The biology of apparent selves" by Michael Levin
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Patricia Silveira 1
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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"The Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist" by Michael Levin
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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"Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology" by Michael Levin
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Bioelectricity: A Bridge Between Physics and Cognition, by Way of Biology
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Intrinsic Motivation in Evolved, Engineered, and Hybrid Systems
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Discussion between Elliot Murphy and Michael Levin 1
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Discussion with Chris Fields and Julian Gough #1
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Discussion with Jordi Vallverdú #1
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Aastha Jain and I interview Robert Gatenby
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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"Mapping Diverse Intelligence Spaces" by Janet Wiles - discussion
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials by Michael Levin
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Biological and Technological Information Processing
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael Levin
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Engineering Agential Materials
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Discussion with Michael Johnson
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Unconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Discussion with Murray Shanahan
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Discussion between Adam Safron, Max Shen, and Michael Levin
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Discussion with David Spivak
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic Intelligence
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Against Mind-Blindness
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Chemical AI: An Unconventional Strategy for Mimicking Biological Intelligence - Pier Luigi Gentili
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative Medicine
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Mark Blumberg, and Karen Adolph: Motor Development and Cognition
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences
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May 15, 2025 |
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Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond
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May 11, 2025 |
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Culture as an Additional Scale of Biological Organisation with Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng
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May 07, 2025 |
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Ethics and the New Biology
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Conversation with Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Discussion with Michael Johnson
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Uncovering Electrodynamic Design Principles of Living Cells
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Conversation with Lauren Ross
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Interview with Azra Raza on a New Theory and Practice of Cancer
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Cellular Automata and Models of Health and Disease
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Bioelectric Networks: An Interface to Engineering with the Agential Material of Life
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Aastha Jain Simes and I Interview Pamela Lyon
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Discussion with Mayli Mertens on Molecular Placebos and Bioelectricity
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Biological and Technological Information Processing: Commonalities, Differences and Implications
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Conversation 2 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Conversation with Richard Watson and Leo Caves
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Mark Solms on Life and Mind
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Discussion with Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Conversation with Buck Trible on His Work on Static Allometry of Ant Castes and Emergent Cognition
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Unconventional Biology, Minimal Models of Intelligence, and Bio-Inspired Computing
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional Intelligence
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Conversation Between Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Conversation 1 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Novel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: Diverse Intelligence and the Study of Consciousness
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - Conversation
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Collective Intelligence of the Body: The Multiscale Architecture of Selves
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Self-Constructing Bodies, Collective Minds: The Intersection of CS, Cognitive Bio, and Philosophy
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Discussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter Research
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Denis Noble
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Embodied Minds: Discovering Diverse Intelligence through the Lens of Biomedicine
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The Bioelectric Interface to the Intelligence of the Body: The Future of Biomedicine
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Unconventional Cognition Through the Lens of Cellular Collective Intelligence in Morphogenesis
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence: A Roadmap for Cancer Medicine
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: A Model System for Basal Cognition
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Discussion with Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney, and Ben Hartl on Evolution, Development, Generative Models
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Mustafa Djamgoz, Foundational Contributor to Cancer Bioelectricity
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Conversation 1 with Alex Schmidt and Alexey Tolchinsky
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Discussion with Richard Watson and Josh Bongard
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Conversation between Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and I on Irruption Theory, Polycomputing, and Minds
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Conversation Between Josh Bongard, Atoosa Parsa, Richard Watson, and I
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Discussion With Tim Jackson, Karl Friston, and Chris Fields
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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An Active Inference Model of Collective Intelligence by R. Kaufman, P. Gupta, and J. Taylor
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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The Mind of the Body: A Window into Embodiment and Our Future
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Prices as Cognitive Glue by Benjamin Lyons
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Discussion with Ricard Sole
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Economics, Deep Learning, and Basal Cognition
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Ken Robinson, a Great Figure in Developmental Bioelectricity
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Conversation between Joscha Bach, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Discussion on Mortal Computations with Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, and Chris Fields
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May 25, 2024 |
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Tom Froese and Michael Levin Discuss Tom's Irruption Theory
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May 24, 2024 |
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Discussion with Michael Pollan of New Ideas on Memories and Selves
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May 09, 2024 |
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Biorobotics: Engineering with Agential Materials
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May 05, 2024 |
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Where Minds Come From: The Scaling of Collective Intelligence, and What It Means for AI and You
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Min Zhao, a Leader in the Role of Bioelectricity in Wound Healing
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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A Conversation with Alison Hanson on Cognitive Science and Her Trajectory in Neurobiology
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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What Can Worms and Frogs Teach Us About Collective Intelligence?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Richard Nuccitelli, a Great Figure in Developmental Bioelectricity
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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A Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, Meeting
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin Discuss Active Inference and Algorithms
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Mark Solms and Michael Levin Discuss Explicit and Implicit Behavioral Drives
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Bioelectricity as Cognitive Glue: From Diverse Intelligence to Regenerative Medicine (~1 hour talk)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Conversation between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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A 1 hour Lecture on Bioelectricity for a Department of Parasitology/Immunology by Michael Levin
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Conversation #2 Between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Bioelectricity as the Software of Life: From Cognitive Glue to Regenerative Medicine
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: Bioelectricity Underlies the Collective Intelligence of Cellular Swarms
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Conversation with Mark Solms and Chris Fields
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Bioelectrical Signals Reveal, Induce, and Normalize Cancer
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Conversation with Chris Fields and Richard Watson
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Conversation With Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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My Talk on Consciousness at the Science of Consciousness 2023
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May 31, 2023 |
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mile Levin
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May 30, 2023 |
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Conversation #1 between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
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May 16, 2023 |
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Conversation #1 between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
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May 11, 2023 |
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Conversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
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May 04, 2023 |
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Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells
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May 01, 2023 |
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Talk for Robosoft 2023
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Working Meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard Watson
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Chat with Carlos E. Perez about the TAME Framework: Intelligence and Agency
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Conversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Engineering with Agential Materials: From Evolution to Biological Robotics, via Bioelectricity
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Beyond the Brain: Multiscale Diverse Intelligence as Biological Inspiration for AI
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Intelligence of the Body
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Diverse Intelligence
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Discussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Conversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Michael Levin Talk on Bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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1 Hour TAME Talk
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Developmental Bioelectricity as a Precursor to Neurobiology
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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At the Intersection of AI & Developmental Biology: Intelligence Beyond the Brain
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Cancer Talk by Michael Levin (2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Tame
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Aug 05, 2021 |