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Thoughtforms Life

Michael Levin

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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200 episodes

  1. Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin 35:08
  2. "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a continuum of cognition (& consciousness) by Michael Levin 39:56
  3. "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" by Michael Levin 35:41
  4. Bio-inspired technology? #science #biology #platonicspace 3:00
  5. What are we? Concepts for biology and AI #science #biology #diverseintelligence 2:14
  6. "Mind-Body Interface: an experimental and Clinical Perspective" by Michael Levin and Karina Kofman 1:04:36
  7. "Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: communicating with unconventional minds" by Michael Levin 1:01:08
  8. Discussion with Marsha Hewitt (Platonic Space and related ideas) 1:03:25
  9. "Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis" by Michael Levin 21:37
  10. Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence by Michael Levin 52:57
  11. A conversation with Andrey Vyshedskiy about the evolution of language and brain development 59:18
  12. Conversation #1 with Diego Bohórquez and Mijail D. Serruya: how information moves levels in bodies 59:24
  13. Conversation #1 with Steven Strogatz 56:27
  14. "Inspiration Across Substrates: free lunches, diverse intelligence and surprise" by Michael Levin 51:55
  15. Conversation #1 with Alexey Tolchinsky, Anthony Weiss and Chris Fields 1:01:37
  16. Conversation #1 with 1:00:42
  17. "Diverse Intelligence: new frontier for Origins, Possibilities, and Diseases of Minds by" M. Levin 54:08
  18. "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs" by Martin Picard 56:38
  19. "Aging, goal-directedness, and bioelectricity" by Michael Levin 23:19
  20. Computationalism and consciousness with Nic Rouleau, Jaan Aru, and Borjan Milinkovic. 57:10
  21. Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space by Michael Levin 49:33
  22. Platonic Space discussion 5 1:58:33
  23. Platonic Space discussion 4 2:04:36
  24. Discussion #1 with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson 1:04:12
  25. A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash 1:30:10
  26. Discussion: Lisa Maroski, Michael Levin, Richard Watson 58:35
  27. Discussion: Richard Watson, Alexey Tolchinsky, Mark Solms, Michael Levin, and Karl Friston 58:38
  28. Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 2: neuroscience, memory transfer, aging of cognition, and more 55:37
  29. Conversation with Nic Rouleau, part 1: "Some thoughts on the mind as material" 1:00:21
  30. Conversation 2 with Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, and Karen Quigley 59:19
  31. Cancer: mitochondria and metabolism - a discussion with Thomas Seyfried and his group 1:23:09
  32. "On Biological and Artificial Consciousness" by Borjan Milinkovic and Jaan Aru 53:46
  33. Platonic Space discussion 3 1:44:24
  34. Conversation with Darren Iammarino #1 54:47
  35. "The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis" by Michael Levin 58:10
  36. Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium 1:41:13
  37. Conversation 1 with Mijail Serruya, Alessandro Napoli, and Wesley Clawson 58:48
  38. Conversation 1 w/ Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley 55:58
  39. "Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral" by Michael Levin 49:42
  40. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences in Developmental Biology and Biomedicine” 46:35
  41. Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke 54:56
  42. Conversation with David Resnik 1 52:40
  43. Discussion #1 with Elan Barenholtz 57:56
  44. Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields 52:19
  45. Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space 1:05:49
  46. Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak 2 55:43
  47. Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more 1:05:02
  48. "Entropic motivation and the roots of agency"by Alex Kiefer 1:03:28
  49. "Unconventional Embodiments: model systems & strategies addressing mind-blindness" by Michael Levin 46:40
  50. "Platonic Space: brief argument and research agenda" by Michael Levin 17:46