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Michael Levin's Academic Content
Registrace 14. 07. 2020
I'm a professor at Tufts University working on some fundamental questions of minds and bodies. This channel contains recorded presentations, interviews, discussions, and other material related to my academic work at the intersection of developmental biology, computer science, and behavior science (see www.drmichaellevin.org). No editing or optimization is done to these raw recordings of segments of our scientific process; all videos have participants' approval to be made public. More content, including videos and discussion Comments, is at thoughtforms.life/ .
"Structural Coupling: how living systems construct their umwelt" by Juan-Carlos Letelier
This is a ~20 minute chalk-talk by Juan-Carlos Letelier (scholar.google.com/citations?user=J1zts-cAAAAJ&hl=en), a professor a the Universidad de Chile, at the intersection of neuroscience and the work of Francisco Varela on the foundations of biology.
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"Exploring Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality" by Nam Hai Le, from University of Southampton.
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This is a ~30 minute talk given in our Center by Nam Hai Le (scholar.google.com/citations?user=waKh7a8AAAAJ&hl=en), a post-doc with Richard Watson (www.richardawatson.com/), with whom we collaborate on issues at the intersection of evolution and cognition. Nam presents some very cool data from his Artificial Life simulation, of emergent larger-scale individuals.
Discussion on Mortal Computations with Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, and Chris Fields
zhlédnutí 3,5KPřed 16 hodinami
This is a 1-hour working meeting discussing Alexander Ororbia's and Karl Friston's paper on Mortal Computations and their relevance to our work in reprogramming biology and cognition more generally. A few papers: Alexander and Karl's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589 Michael Levin's paper to which they referred a couple of times: osf.io/preprints/osf/4b2wj
Tom Froese and Michael Levin discuss Tom's Irruption theory
zhlédnutí 3,4KPřed 19 hodinami
This is a meeting discussion, ~40 minutes, between Tom Froese (Cognitive Scientist at OIST, groups.oist.jp/ecsu/tom-froese) and Michael Levin, going over Tom's recent paper on Irruption theory and discussing embodied minds, agency, and models of mind-body interaction. The paper is here: www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/4/288
"Heterogeneity Extends Criticality"
zhlédnutí 1,3KPřed 21 hodinou
A talk by Carlos Gershenson (of SUNY Binghampton), ~42 minutes long, given in our Center.
Discussion with Michael Pollan of new ideas on memories and Selves
zhlédnutí 12KPřed 21 dnem
This is a discussion meeting (~1 hour 20 minutes) between Michael Levin and Michael Pollan (michaelpollan.com/) of the new ideas in this paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/4b2wj
"Biorobotics: engineering with agential materials"
zhlédnutí 3,8KPřed 21 dnem
This is an ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin on the topic of engineering with agential (living) materials, given for the students and other members of the ETHZ Zurich Soft Robotics Lab led by Prof. Robert Katzschmann).
Where Minds Come From: the scaling of collective intelligence, and what it means for AI and you
zhlédnutí 12KPřed měsícem
This is a ~45 minute talk I gave to some undergraduate students about ideas from biology that might help them think about AI and related topics.
Aastha Jain Simes & I interview Min Zhao, a leader in the role of bioelectricity in wound healing
zhlédnutí 1,8KPřed měsícem
This is the second of several interviews we will do with significant contributors to the field of developmental bioelectricity. Min Zhao's work focused on the role of ion currents and applied electric fields in cell migration and wound repair. scholar.google.com/citations?user=G7-zWBcAAAAJ&hl=en health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/zhao.html Aastha Jain: www.livelongerworld.com/
A conversation with Alison Hanson on cognitive science and her trajectory in neurobiology.
zhlédnutí 3,4KPřed měsícem
This is a 1-hour conversation with Ali Hanson (braininitiative.nih.gov/ali-hanson-md-phd) on her path in science, including a ~45 minute presentation of her data in Hydra. This is the first of a series of videos I will do to highlight some exceptional junior scientists' work. More information will be provided on a blog post on Ali's work at thoughtforms.org/
Cyber Animism by Joscha Bach
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This is a 1 hour 45 minute talk by Joscha Bach (bach.ai/) given in our Center.
What can worms and frogs teach us about collective intelligence?
zhlédnutí 3,8KPřed měsícem
This is a talk I gave at a large tech company for non-specialists interested in the intersection of computation, biology, and fundamental questions about Selfhood. It's about 48 minutes long and unfortunately does not capture my cursor movement so you can't see the things on the slides at which I am pointing.
Agency at the Very Bottom
zhlédnutí 3,9KPřed měsícem
This is a talk by Benjamin Lyons (~1 hour) on agency within mathematics.
The Mortal Computation Thesis by Alexander Ororbia
zhlédnutí 4,4KPřed měsícem
This is a ~1 hour talk by Alexander Ororbia (www.cs.rit.edu/~ago/) from the Neural Adaptive Computing (NAC) Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The related paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589
Aastha Jain Simes & I interview Richard Nuccitelli, a great figure in developmental Bioelectricity.
zhlédnutí 2,8KPřed měsícem
This is the first of several interviews we will do with significant people in the history of developmental bioelectricity. Richard Nuccitelli is a legend, having invented (with Lionel Jaffe, in 1974) the Vibrating Probe - a technique that allowed the non-invasive sensing of ion currents around living tissues. This is about a ~1 hour conversation in which he talks about his background, the histo...
Cristi Stoica on the Relativity of Computation.
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Cristi Stoica on the Relativity of Computation.
Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson, #1
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Conversation between Donald Hoffman and Richard Watson, #1
A discussion between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin.
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A discussion between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike Levin.
Bioelectric networks underlie the collective intelligence of morphogenesis
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Bioelectric networks underlie the collective intelligence of morphogenesis
"Aging and biological arrow of time" by Peter Fedichev
zhlédnutí 2,7KPřed 2 měsíci
"Aging and biological arrow of time" by Peter Fedichev
Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
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Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems
Multimodal Spatiotemporal Phenotyping of Human Retinal Organoid Development by Christoph Harmel
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Multimodal Spatiotemporal Phenotyping of Human Retinal Organoid Development by Christoph Harmel
Ephaptic Biases on Neural Self-Organization
zhlédnutí 1,9KPřed 3 měsíci
Ephaptic Biases on Neural Self-Organization
Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, meeting 1
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Timothy Jackson and Mike Levin, meeting 1
"A bioelectric interface to the collective intelligence of agential materials for bioengineering"
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"A bioelectric interface to the collective intelligence of agential materials for bioengineering"
Controlling Hydra regeneration by electric fields: the role of noise in morphogenesis
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Controlling Hydra regeneration by electric fields: the role of noise in morphogenesis
Exploratory Learning in Biological Cells - a talk by Naama Brenner on Feb 13, 2024
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Exploratory Learning in Biological Cells - a talk by Naama Brenner on Feb 13, 2024
Global organization and evolution of the virus world by Eugene V. Koonin
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Global organization and evolution of the virus world by Eugene V. Koonin
Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin discuss active inference and algorithms
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Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin discuss active inference and algorithms