

Thoughtforms Life
Michael Levin
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 intelligence and agency emerge from the most fundamental levels of nature.
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Oct 13, 2023 • 57min
Bioelectricity as the Software of Life: From Cognitive Glue to Regenerative Medicine
This is a talk I gave (1 hour) to a computer science and robotics audience.
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Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 5min
Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: Bioelectricity Underlies the Collective Intelligence of Cellular Swarms
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.
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Sep 29, 2023 • 51min
Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine
This is a ~50 minute talk by Michael Levin to a clinical audience about bioelectricity and why it represents a new approach to medicine.
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Sep 1, 2023 • 56min
Conversation with Mark Solms and Chris Fields
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.
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Aug 15, 2023 • 52min
Bioelectrical Signals Reveal, Induce, and Normalize Cancer
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"
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Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 10min
Conversation with Chris Fields and Richard Watson
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://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
Richard Watson: https://www.richardawatson.com/
Patrick Grim: http://www.pgrim...
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Jun 5, 2023 • 58min
Conversation With Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
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).
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Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 1min
Conversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin
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/
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May 31, 2023 • 34min
My Talk on Consciousness at the Science of Consciousness 2023
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).
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May 30, 2023 • 59min
Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mile Levin
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/
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