Thoughtforms Life

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. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is about a ~45 minute talk by me, focusing specifically on parallels between morphogenesis and cognitive/behavioral science (given to a neuroscience audience). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

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....

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. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

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/). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter...

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. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

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 CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

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...

A talk by Michael Levin (with Q&A at the end) given at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Colloquium given in November 2023 (not May as the title screen says). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a 1-hour discussion between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin on the topics of collective intelligence and possible relevance to economic/social issues above the level of the single individual. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a 1 hour talk on bioelectricity with a special slant toward microbiology/immunology/parasitology. More information is at https://thoughtforms.life/?p=1722 including some audio of Q&A afterward. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I discuss how memory is stored in trained but static pathway models, and what this means for memory and mind-reading technologies in general. See https://thoughtforms.life/but-where-is-the-memory-a-discussion-of-training-gene-regulatory-networks-and-its-implications/ for more information and background on this topic. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple...

This is a talk I gave (1 hour) to a computer science and robotics audience. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a talk I gave to a neuroscience audience for the Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. 1 hr 4 minutes. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~50 minute talk by Michael Levin to a clinical audience about bioelectricity and why it represents a new approach to medicine. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss what novel behaviors are (in the context of problem-solving in novel circumstances), consciousness in explanted brain pieces, and sleep in unconventional agents. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour talk by Mike Levin on the bioelectrics of cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and collective intelligence of morphogenesis. The full title is: "Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer: a perspective on cancer as a disease of dynamic geometry" CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Working meeting between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I where we discuss error correction (and who decides what's an error), quantum aspects generalized to the larger world, decoherence, observers, and Patrick Grim's fascinating work on adding a time dimension to logic to enable contradictions and self-referential paradoxes to be manipulated as fractal structures. Chris Fields: https://chrisfi...

We discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history and anticipation, free will and responsibility, what learning (generalizing) agents bring to the table beyond the input data, truly alien aliens, and whether your brain is really necessary (e.g., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levi...

Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more. Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

A 30-minute talk on implications of my work for the study of consciousness (fyi, I do not offer a new theory of consciousness or try to support/rule out any of the existing ToC's; I talk about reasons to suspect consciousness in other parts of bodies than the brain and other diverse embodiments). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Conversation between Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and I. Mostly about the nature of explanation in developmental biology and bioengineering. Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Discussion between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and I about brains, agency, and more. Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Working meeting #1 with Chris Fields and Richard Watson. We discuss error-correcting codes (a little; more next time), reductionism, multi-scale controls, and more. Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab