Thoughtforms Life

This is ~1 hour conversation with Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea) and Gunnar Babcock (https://gunnarbabcock.com/) on topics of biology, evolution, information, causation, and ethics in the philosophy of mind. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a 1 hour 8 minute talk covering topics of collective intelligence in morphogenesis as a model system for thinking about the origin and scaling of cognition in diverse embodiments. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Diverse Intelligence Framework(12:00) Morphogenesis Problem Solving(22:00) Bioelectric Pattern Memory(34:30) Exploring Latent Space CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~40 minute talk on the future of medicine from my perspective given remotely to students at the University of Bologna, Italy. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~45 minute keynote talk at the Bioelectricity and Cancer conference (https://cam.cancer.gov/research/bioelectricity_and_cancer_conference.htm) held at NIH in September 2024. CHAPTERS:(00:00) What is Cancer?(13:00) Cognitive Light Cone & Cancer(18:00) Bioelectric Layer: Cognitive Glue(23:00) Bioelectricity in Cancer(28:00) Tools: Imaging & Control(32:00) Bioelectric Diagnostics & Induction(37:00) Suppressing Cancer Bioelectrically(42:00) Roadmap and Future Directions(46:00) Conclusion & Acknowledgements CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour talk on morphogenesis as a collective intelligence and some specifics about cognitive glue. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intro: Diverse Intelligence Overview(01:40) Discrete Kinds vs Continuum(03:50) Intelligence in Novel Spaces(06:00) Cells as Collective Intelligence(09:30) Morphogenesis and Agential Material(12:30) Defining Intelligence: Perturbations(17:00) Tadpole Metamorphosis Intelligence(19:30) Anatomical Homeostasis & Setpoints(21:30) Bioelectricity: Cognitive Glue(23:30) Ancient Bioelectric Networks(25:30) Reading Bioelectric Patterns(27:30) Manipulating Bioelectric States(30:00) Bioelectric Control of Organs(33:00) Planaria Pattern Memory(35:44) Two-Headed Worms & Memory(37:30) Exploring Anatomical Morphospace(40:00) Diverse Intelligence: Cognitive Light Cone(42:00) Cancer: Breakdown Collective Intelligence(44:00) Origin of Goals & Individuality(45:30) Mechanisms of Collective Alignment(47:00) Stress Sharing Mechanism(48:30) New Forms of Intelligence(49:30) Xenobots: Synthetic Life(53:00) Anthrobots: Human Cell Bots(54:30) Future of Diverse Intelligence(55:30) Conclusion and Acknowledgements CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Kevin Mitchell (https://www.kjmitchell.com/), Nick Cheney (https://www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/profiles/nick-cheney), and Ben Hartl (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/benedikt-hartl-ph-d/) on the application of connectionist generative models in understanding the role of the genome in evolution and the control of form and function. Links to relevant materials mentioned in the discussion: Nick and Kevin's recent paper preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908 Kevin's rec... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is another episode in our series on the great figures in developmental bioelectricity. We interview (~1 hour) Mustafa Djamgoz, who has made pivotal discoveries about the role of bioelectricity in the problem of cancer and its eventual solution. Mustafa's book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17612801-beat-cancer Mustafa's papers: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/m.djamgoz/publications Mustafa and I are co-editors of the new journal Bioelectricity: https://home.liebertpub.com/publicat... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Dr. Alex Schmidt (www.schmidtpsychologicalservices.com) and Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D. (https://montgomerycountypsychologist.com/). We touch on issues of trauma, somatic memory, dissociation, and protective mechanisms at the interface of the psychiatry and developmental biology. In private practice, Dr. Schmidt works with children and adults who exhibit severe and lasting emotional and physical trauma and who present with assorted presentations of PTSD. She has... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Richard Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/) and Josh Bongard (https://www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/profiles/josh_bongard) touching on topics of agency, polycomputing, oscillations, and evolution. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour conversation between Josh Bongard (https://www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/profiles/josh_bongard), Tom Froese (https://www.oist.jp/research/tom-froese), and I on Irruption theory, polycomputing, and the mind-body relationship. Some relevant links from the discussion: Tom's paper on irruption theory: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/4/288 Josh and I on polycomputaton: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/1/110 Eduardo's paper on multiple embodiment: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab