Thing in itself

Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Oct 1, 2022

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Bioelectrical Mechanisms Aren't New to the Brain, Right?

03:14

The Concept of Goal Directedness

03:08

Is It Possible to Go Backwards With Developmental Biology or Synthetic Bioengineering

03:44

Introduction

5min

Bioelectrical Mechanisms Aren't New to the Brain, Right?

3min

Gene Regulatory Networks Can Learn

4min

Bioelectrics or Gene Regulation Networks Are Not Privileged Levels of Software

2min

Is There a Gurdel Type of Limits?

3min

The Multi Scale Competency Architecture

3min

The Third Implication for Evolution

5min

Is That a Significant of Intelligence?

2min

How to Think About Kognition and Intelligence

2min

10.

Is There a Bottom Out Where There Is Zero?

4min

11.

Paramecia

2min

12.

Is It Possible to Go Backwards With Developmental Biology or Synthetic Bioengineering

4min

13.

Sci-Fi Isn't the Answer, Right? Um, Yeah, I'm Not Down on Sci-Fi at All.

6min

14.

The Problem With Consciousness

4min

15.

How to Study Consciousness

2min

16.

The Concept of Goal Directedness

3min

17.

Is There Any General Leaps Away From, or Is It Just Empirical?

3min

18.

Top Down Causation Isn't Top Down Causation

3min

19.

Is Engineer Bioengineering a Good Idea?

2min

20.

Is There Such a Thing as an Algorithm?

6min

21.

Theoretical Conceptual and Empirical Approaches

3min

Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of biology.

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