About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin · 35 minThis 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…
- "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a continuum of cognition (& consciousness) by Michael Levin · 40 minThis is a ~39 minute talk titled "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a perspective on a continuum of cognition (& consciousness)" for a consciousness conference about our…
- "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" by Michael Levin · 36 minThis is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" I gave at a recent conference. CHAPTERS: (00:00) The nature of…
- Bio-inspired technology? #science #biology #platonicspace · 3 minThis #short is an excerpt from Michael Levin's talk "Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4 produced by…
- What are we? Concepts for biology and AI #science #biology #diverseintelligence · 2 minThis #short is an excerpt from Michael Levin's talk "Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4 produced by…
- "Mind-Body Interface: an experimental and Clinical Perspective" by Michael Levin and Karina Kofman · 1 h 4 minThis 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…
- "Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: communicating with unconventional minds" by Michael Levin · 1 h 1 minThis 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…
- Discussion with Marsha Hewitt (Platonic Space and related ideas) · 1 h 3 minThis 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…
- "Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis" by Michael Levin · 22 minThis 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…
- Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence by Michael Levin · 53 min"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…
- A conversation with Andrey Vyshedskiy about the evolution of language and brain development · 59 minThis is a ~1 hour conversation with Andrey Vyshedskiy (https://www.bu.edu/prsocial/profile/andrey-vyshedskiy/) about the evolution of language, brain mechanisms, implications for…
- Conversation #1 with Diego Bohórquez and Mijail D. Serruya: how information moves levels in bodies · 59 minThis is a ~59 minute working meeting where I introduce two very interesting neuroscientists to each other - Diego Bohórquez (https://medicine.duke.edu/profile/diego-v-bohorquez)…
- Conversation #1 with Steven Strogatz · 56 minThis is a ~56 minute conversation with mathematician Steven Strogatz (https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/) covering issues of explanation in mathematics, Platonism, and related…
- "Inspiration Across Substrates: free lunches, diverse intelligence and surprise" by Michael Levin · 52 minThis is a ~52 minute talk on inspiration across substrates and my model of "free lunches" and the Platonic space. CHAPTERS: (00:00) The concept of inspiration (03:47) Defining…
- Conversation #1 with Alexey Tolchinsky, Anthony Weiss and Chris Fields · 1 h 1 minThis is a ~1 hour conversation on the future of mental health from the perspective of the diverse intelligence field, with Alexey Tolchinsky…
- Conversation #1 with · 1 h 0 minThis is a ~1 hour working meeting with Thomas Pollak (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/thomas-pollak, https://drtompollak.substack.com/) and David King…
- "Diverse Intelligence: new frontier for Origins, Possibilities, and Diseases of Minds by" M. Levin · 54 minThis is a ~54 minute talk titled "Diverse Intelligence: a new frontier for Origins, Possibilities, and Diseases of the Mind(s)" which I gave for an audience composed of mental…
- "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs" by Martin Picard · 57 minThis is a ~57 minute talk titled "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs: the mitochondrial daily energy expenditure MDEE study" by Martin Picard…
- "Aging, goal-directedness, and bioelectricity" by Michael Levin · 23 minThis is ~23 minute talk overviewing our recent results and the way we think about aging and longevity. It was for a conference with quite short speaking slots so I had to talk…
- Computationalism and consciousness with Nic Rouleau, Jaan Aru, and Borjan Milinkovic. · 57 minDiscussion #2 (57 minutes on computationalism and consciousness) with Borjan Milinkovic (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AwaZbzsAAAAJ&hl=en), Jaan Aru…
