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Scales and Science Fiction with Michael Levin. The first of a multi-part way-making research conversation with Tufts biologist Michael Levin. We discuss his own path and how science fiction helped him see beyond dichotomies. We also discuss the scales of cognition and what it might mean to reorient our understandings of life and mind.

Links to the papers mentioned:
TAME and Light Cones: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688/full
Navigation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35741540/

Links to more of Michael Levin's work:
Bluesky: @drmichaellevin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmichaellevin
Website: https://drmichaellevin.org

SEMF: https://semf.org.es/school2023/

SciFi Story Made of Meat by Terry Bisson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re_Made_Out_of_Meat

More Papers:
Biological Robots: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880
Limb Regeneration: https://science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2164

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Website for Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy: https://loveandphilosophy.com/

Hosted by Andrea Hiott. More at https://www.andreahiott.com

Full intro and notes here.

Care is not the opposite of love. It is the very urge of life. 'Caring for what?' is the primary question. That we have a choice about what we care for and how is what makes us human, but it's quite the challenge and responsibility. Let's help one another handle it.

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