Thoughtforms Life

By Michael LevinScience Education

Thoughtforms Life episodes

March 16, 2024A Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin
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.
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1 hr 22 min
March 15, 2024Bioelectric Networks Underlie the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis
This is about a ~45 minute talk by me, focusing specifically on parallels between morphogenesis and cognitive/behavioral science (given to a neuroscience audience).
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49 min
March 05, 2024Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
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.
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February 24, 2024Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, Meeting
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.
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53 min
February 22, 2024A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering
This is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students.
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56 min
February 04, 2024Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin Discuss Active Inference and Algorithms
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/).
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February 03, 2024Mark Solms and Michael Levin Discuss Explicit and Implicit Behavioral Drives
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.
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55 min
January 07, 2024Discussion with Stuart Kauffman and Katherine Peil Kauffman
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
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November 25, 2023Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology
A 30-minute talk (from April 2023) by Michael Levin given to an audience interested in longevity and the future of biotechnology research.
CHAPTERS:
(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
(35:00) AI, Ethics, Future
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31 min
November 25, 2023Bioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of Biology
A 30-minute talk (from April 2023) by Michael Levin given to an audience interested in longevity and the future of biotechnology research.
CHAPTERS:
(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
(35:00) AI, Ethics, Future
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31 min

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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…