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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 Blog The Levin Lab

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(26:00) Permanent Morphological Changes(31:00) Cancer & Synthetic Life(35:00) AI, Ethics, Future CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

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 Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab