Thoughtforms Life

By Michael LevinScience Education

Thoughtforms Life episodes

May 07, 2025Culture as an Additional Scale of Biological Organisation with Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng
This is a short summary talk by Ivan Kroupin (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XjxueRYAAAAJ&hl=en) and Tian Chen Zeng (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tian-Chen-Zeng) and then a discussion of issues around biological and cultural multi-scale intelligence. Their longer talk is here: https://youtu.be/dYuNJSilRMo?si=gVvMV_N4pjloe0iX
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April 26, 2025Ethics and the New Biology
This is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates) about aspects of our work that have implications for ethics.

CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Intelligence All The Way Down
(06:30) Scaling Up Cognition
(13:40) Communicating With Cellular Intelligence
(20:00) Freedom of Embodiment
(27:40) Ethics of Future Beings

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April 19, 2025Conversation with Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky
This is a ~1 hour conversation with Frank Putnam (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KLGgJg4AAAAJ&hl=en) and Alexey Tolchinsky (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tiBKmrsAAAAJ&hl=en) about dissociative disorders, clinical psychology, and their applications to the cell biology of regenerative medicine and cancer.
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April 17, 2025Discussion with Michael Johnson
This is a ~50 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and more generally computation and cognition in unconventional substrates.
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April 11, 2025How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine
This is a ~1 hour talk on the field of developmental bioelectricity from a perspective of cognitive science and the homology between mechanisms of self-assembly of somatic and brain-based intelligence.
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April 11, 2025How does it know? Bioelectricity as a memory medium, cognitive glue, and a path to regenerative medicine
This is a ~1 hour talk on the field of developmental bioelectricity from a perspective of cognitive science and the homology between mechanisms of self-assembly of somatic and brain-based intelligence.

CHAPTERS:
(00:01) Introduction to Bioelectricity
(05:30) Cells as Collective Intelligence
(11:15) Beyond Genomic Information
(17:45) Anatomical Compiler Vision
(22:30) Bioelectric Patterns and Memory
(30:15) Organ Creation and Regeneration
(38:45) Computational Models for Regeneration
(44:00) Anthrobots: Novel Biological Constructs
(50:30) Future of Biomedical Applications

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April 08, 2025Uncovering Electrodynamic Design Principles of Living Cells
This is a ~1 hour talk by Jack Tuszynski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tuszy%C5%84ski, https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jackt) on electrical and electromagnetic properties of microtubules.
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March 22, 2025Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
This is a ~1 hour conversation with Alexey Tolchinsky (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexey-Tolchinsky), a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University, Center for Professional Psychology, and Thomas Pollak (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-0810), a neuropsychiatrist and researcher working at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, on the topic of extending concepts from neuroscience to understand cellular behav...
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March 22, 2025Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak
This is a ~1 hour conversation with Alexey Tolchinsky (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexey-Tolchinsky), a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University, Center for Professional Psychology, and Thomas Pollak (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-0810), a neuropsychiatrist and researcher working at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, on the topic of extending concepts from neuroscience to understand cellular behav...
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March 21, 2025Conversation with Lauren Ross
This is a ~1 hour discussion with philosopher of science Lauren Ross (https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~rossl/), on the topic of explanation and causation - what does it mean to look for explanations in science, what counts as a good explanation, and how do you know you've got one.
Lauren's book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/explanation-in-biology/743A8C5A6E709B1E348FCD4D005C67B3
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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…