Thoughtforms Life

Cancer: mitochondria and metabolism - a discussion with Thomas Seyfried and his group

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a 1hr + 23 minutes talk and conversation with Thomas Seyfried, Derek Lee and Tomás Duraj ( Juanita Mathews from my group ( about their work o...

"On Biological and Artificial Consciousness" by Borjan Milinkovic and Jaan Aru

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~53 minute talk + 14 minute Q&A titled "On Biological and Artificial Consciousness: a case for biological computationalism" by Borjan Mi...

Platonic Space discussion 3

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hours 44 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space...

Conversation with Darren Iammarino #1

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~54 minute conversation with Darren Iammarino (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YNrxRaYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works) abou...

"The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis" by Michael Levin

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~57 minute talk titled "The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: development, regeneration, cancer, and be...

Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 40 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/...

Conversation 1 with Mijail Serruya, Alessandro Napoli, and Wesley Clawson

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation with (including a short talk by) Mijail Serruya (https://research.jefferson.edu/labs/researcher/serruya-research.html),...

Conversation 1 w/ Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a discussion with with Lisa Feldman Barrett (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WF5c0_8AAAAJ&hl=en), Benjamin Lyons (https://intere...

"Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral" by Michael Levin

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~50 minute video on evolution from the perspective of diverse intelligence. I discuss 3 main things: the nature of the mapping between genot...

“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences in Developmental Biology and Biomedicine”

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~46 minute talk by Michael Levin titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences in Developmental Biology and Biomedicin...

Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~54 minute conversation with Katrina Schleisman (https://www.galois.com/team/katrina-schleisman) and David Burke (https://www.galois.com/tea...

Conversation with David Resnik 1

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~52 minute conversation with philosopher David Resnik (https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/bioethicist) about the Platoni...

Discussion #1 with Elan Barenholtz

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~57 minute discussion with Elan Barenholtz (https://mpcrlab.com/people/Elan-Barenholtz/) about language and its possible autonomy in brains,...

Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~52 minute discussion between Diana Moga (https://www.dianamogamd.com/), Alexey Tolchinsky (https://montgomerycountypsychologist.com/), Chri...

Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 5 minute conversation between Nora Belrose (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p_oBc64AAAAJ&hl=en) and me on the topics o...

Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak 2

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation between Alexey Tolchinsky (https://montgomerycountypsychologist.com/), a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor at...

Discussion #1 with Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Karl Friston, and Thomas Pollak: introspection & more

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 5 minute working conversation with Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations...

"Entropic motivation and the roots of agency"by Alex Kiefer

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~35 min talk titled "Entropic motivation and the roots of agency" by Alex Kiefer (https://philpeople.org/profiles/alex-kiefer) + ~25 min dis...

"Unconventional Embodiments: model systems & strategies addressing mind-blindness" by Michael Levin

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~45 minute talk for an embodied cognition audience, covering my framework for diverse intelligence, our use of morphogenesis as a model syst...

"Platonic Space: brief argument and research agenda" by Michael Levin

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a brief (~17 minute) introduction to my argument about Platonic space in biology, using a 1-page simplified argument format and then a quick o...

Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with unconventional beings by Michael Levin

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This ~50 minute talk given at a futurism/AI gathering is a variant of my recent talks on diverse intelligence, focusing on ways to expand our perspect...

Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Eli Sennesh, and Jordan Theriault

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Ben Lyons (https://interestingessays.substack.com/), Eli Sennesh (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3z4ALYgA...

"What the physiological software of life means for patient-specific interventions" by Michael Levin

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a very brief (~5 minute) explanation I made at a conference on next generation biomedicine about the topic of physiological learning and repro...

Why bioelectricity in morphogenesis matters: an introduction in 3 slides by Michael Levin

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is an ~8 minute very quick introduction about the context for developmental bioelectricity and some examples of how we use it as an interface to ...

"The biology of apparent selves" by Michael Levin

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~52-minute talk titled "The Biology of Apparent Selves: Bioengineering Model Systems for the Contemplative Sciences" that I have at the CSCS...

Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Patricia Silveira 1

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~48 minute discussion between Alexey Tolchinsky (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tiBKmrsAAAAJ&hl=en), Patricia Silveira (https...

"The Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist" by Michael Levin

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~58 minute talk titled "The Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist: symmetries between AI and bioengineering the agential material of life a...

"Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology" by Michael Levin

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~22 minute talk that I gave remotely at the Tech For Impact Summit 2025 in Japan (https://tech4impactsummit.com/). It goes very quickly ove...

Bioelectricity: A Bridge Between Physics and Cognition, by Way of Biology

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~54 minute talk I gave, titled ""Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology", at the National Institute of He...

Intrinsic Motivation in Evolved, Engineered, and Hybrid Systems

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk I gave at the Oxford Robotics Institute called "Intrinsic motivation in evolved, engineered, and hybrid systems: the interface ...

Discussion between Elliot Murphy and Michael Levin 1

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a a ~1 hour discussion between Elliot Murphy (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4AYNRj0AAAAJ&hl=en) and me on the topic of languag...

Discussion with Chris Fields and Julian Gough #1

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a conversation between Chris Fields (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/christopher-a-chris-fields-ph-d/), Julian Gough (https://theeggand...

Discussion with Jordi Vallverdú #1

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a discussion between Jordi Vallverdú (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y_Q8AQkAAAAJ&hl=en) and me, around the topic of transferr...

Aastha Jain and I interview Robert Gatenby

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour interview by Aastha Jain Simes (https://www.livelongerworld.com/) and I of leading cancer researcher Robert Gatenby (https://www.mof...

"Mapping Diverse Intelligence Spaces" by Janet Wiles - discussion

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~36 minute talk by Janet Wiles (https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/13) "Mapping Diverse Intelligence Spaces: looking for xenobots in computatio...

Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials by Michael Levin

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a 1 hour 11 minute talk by me called "Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond". It is a sligh...

Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 15 minute talk titled "Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence: how Platonic Space in-forms evolved, engineered, and hybrid e...

Biological and Technological Information Processing

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~35 minute talk on commonalities and differences between biological and technological information processing, and the implications for AI (g...

Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael Levin

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~46 minute talk given at a conference on consciousness, presenting my lab's data on cognition in body organs outside the brain and then some...

Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 7 minute talk I gave at the SEMF Interdisciplinary School (July 2025, https://semf.org.es/school2025/#speakers-container) on agency...

Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~54 minute talk given at a workshop on complexity. Many of the examples are the same ones I often talk about but this talk is focused on exp...

Engineering Agential Materials

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~18 min talk plus ~10 min Q&A on a top-down approach to bioengineering and robotics that I gave at the Biohybrid Robotics Symposium in S...

Discussion with Michael Johnson

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~55 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) covering topics of spectrum of consciousness down to the cell (and be...

Unconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Unconventional selves in novel spaces, scales, and embodiments - a diverse intelligence perspective on a continuum of cognition and consciousness" is...

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a deliberately provocative talk (~1 hour 20 minutes) I gave on teleology (a pretty taboo subject in a lot of the life sciences) delivered at C...

Discussion with Murray Shanahan

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~25 minute discussion with Murray Shanahan (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/) on topics following up on his talk in our Center (https://yout...

Discussion between Adam Safron, Max Shen, and Michael Levin

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Adam Safron (https://www.adamsafron.com/) and Max Shen (https://www.maxkshen.com/home), and Michael Levinabout diver...

Discussion with David Spivak

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour discussion with mathematician David Spivak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spivak) about issues related to goal-directedness an...

Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic Intelligence

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~55 min talk by Michael Levin "Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: an interface to somatic intelligence for regenerative medicine", going ove...

Against Mind-Blindness

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a new ~1 hour talk by me on the concept of diverse intelligence, and morphogenesis as a model system with which to practice identifying and co...

Chemical AI: An Unconventional Strategy for Mimicking Biological Intelligence - Pier Luigi Gentili

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour total presentation by Pier Luigi Gentili (https://www.pierluigigentili.com/) and brainstorming session about chemical intelligence a...

Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative Medicine

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~50 minute talk by me (given at IIT Mandi yesterday) on bioelectricity from the perspective of both, a path to regenerative medicine of birt...

Conversation with Benjamin Lyons, Mark Blumberg, and Karen Adolph: Motor Development and Cognition

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~30 minute conversation with Benjamin Lyons (https://benjaminflyons.com/), Mark Blumberg (https://blumberg.lab.uiowa.edu), and Karen Adolph ...

Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse Intelligences

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~35 minute talk about diverse intelligence and our efforts to establish formalisms and methods for communicating with unconventional biologi...

Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~20 minute very rapid talk reviewing ideas around the scaling of intelligence in unconventional substrates. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intro & Un...

Culture as an Additional Scale of Biological Organisation with Ivan Kroupin and Tian Chen Zeng

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a short summary talk by Ivan Kroupin (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XjxueRYAAAAJ&hl=en) and Tian Chen Zeng (https://www.resear...

Ethics and the New Biology

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates) about aspects of our work that have implications for ethics. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intellige...

Conversation with Frank Putnam and Alexey Tolchinsky

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation with Frank Putnam (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KLGgJg4AAAAJ&hl=en) and Alexey Tolchinsky (https://sch...

Discussion with Michael Johnson

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~50 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and more generally comp...

How Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative Medicine

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk on the field of developmental bioelectricity from a perspective of cognitive science and the homology between mechanisms of sel...

Uncovering Electrodynamic Design Principles of Living Cells

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk by Jack Tuszynski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tuszy%C5%84ski, https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jackt) on elect...

Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation with Alexey Tolchinsky (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexey-Tolchinsky), a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Pr...

Conversation with Lauren Ross

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour discussion with philosopher of science Lauren Ross (https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~rossl/), on the topic of explanation and causation...

Interview with Azra Raza on a New Theory and Practice of Cancer

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation of Aastha Jain Simes (https://www.livelongerworld.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/aasthajs) and Azra Raza on her uniq...

Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a very fast (~33min) flyover of some ideas relevant to the relationship between biology, computation, cognition, consciousness, and related su...

Cellular Automata and Models of Health and Disease

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~35 minute discussion with Willem Nielsen (https://community.wolfram.com/web/wrn2001, https://medium.com/@wnielsen) from the Wolfram Institu...

Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is an ~1 hour 10 minute conversation with Iain McGilchrist (https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/), on the topic of my recent paper on the Platoni...

Bioelectric Networks: An Interface to Engineering with the Agential Material of Life

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk (given at the Departmental Seminar series at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences) on th...

Aastha Jain Simes and I Interview Pamela Lyon

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This a ~1 hour 20 minute conversation between Aastha Jain Simes (https://www.livelongerworld.com/), Pamela Lyon (https://scholar.google.com.au/citatio...

Discussion with Mayli Mertens on Molecular Placebos and Bioelectricity

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~30 minute conversation with Mayli Mertens (Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at University of Antwerp, https://philpeople.org/profiles/mayli-...

Biological and Technological Information Processing: Commonalities, Differences and Implications

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hr talk on what is similar and what is different between biological and (current) technological information-processing systems, and the i...

Conversation 2 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-b...

Conversation with Richard Watson and Leo Caves

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1.5 hour conversation with Richard Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/) and Leo Caves (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leo-Caves, ...

A Conversation with Mark Solms on Life and Mind

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~2-hour Q&A with Mark Solms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Solms) at the "Public conversation about their work and its implications...

Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation between Alexey Tolchinsky (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/alexey-tolchinsky-psyd ), a clinical psychol...

Discussion with Robert Prentner and Timothy Jackson

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 10 minute discussion with Robert Prentner (https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=ZYcFVxoAAAAJ&hl=en) and Timothy Jackson (htt...

Conversation with Buck Trible on His Work on Static Allometry of Ant Castes and Emergent Cognition

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation with Buck Trible (https://triblelab.fas.harvard.edu/people/waring-buck-trible, https://scholar.google.com/citations?use...

Unconventional Biology, Minimal Models of Intelligence, and Bio-Inspired Computing

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a 1 hour 10 minute presentation of ideas around the architecture of biology (and how it differs from today's computational systems). Focusing ...

Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional Intelligence

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hr10min talk I gave at a conference on modeling aspects of neuroscience. The talk is about the inverse idea - how tools and concepts from...

Conversation Between Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk with Aaron Sloman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sloman), Anthony Leggett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_James_Le...

Conversation 1 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, AI, causation, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.corne...

Novel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: Diverse Intelligence and the Study of Consciousness

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~55 minute talk titled "Novel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a diverse intelligence perspective on a continuum of cognition (and consciousnes...

Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - Conversation

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup (https://www.bernardokastrup.com/), Richatrd Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com...

Collective Intelligence of the Body: The Multiscale Architecture of Selves

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~55 minute talk on the topic of the "Multiscale Human" (https://humanatlas.io/events/2024-24h/). I cover the topics of "what are we", "impli...

Self-Constructing Bodies, Collective Minds: The Intersection of CS, Cognitive Bio, and Philosophy

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a 1 hour 12 minute talk presented at the 2nd Symposium on the Philosophy of Computing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It cov...

Discussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter Research

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~50 minute working meeting between Martin Hanczyc (https://www.martinhanczyc.com/) and Michael Levin, discussing work on autonomous droplets...

A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin, given to the bioengineering department at Northeastern University, on the topic of using bioelectricity as an...

Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Denis Noble

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour interview with the great Denis Noble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Noble), who made seminal contributions to understanding th...

Embodied Minds: Discovering Diverse Intelligence through the Lens of Biomedicine

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~45 minute talk given at the Imagining Summit (https://www.artificiality.world/the-imagining-summit/) on Diverse Intelligence and synthbiosi...

Discussion with Daniel McShea and Gunnar Babcock

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is ~1 hour conversation with Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea) and Gunnar Babcock (https://gunnarbabcock.com/) on topics ...

The Bioelectric Interface to the Intelligence of the Body: The Future of Biomedicine

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Unconventional Cognition Through the Lens of Cellular Collective Intelligence in Morphogenesis

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Bioelectric Basis of Morphogenetic Intelligence: A Roadmap for Cancer Medicine

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~45 minute keynote talk at the Bioelectricity and Cancer conference (https://cam.cancer.gov/research/bioelectricity_and_cancer_conference.ht...

The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: A Model System for Basal Cognition

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour talk on morphogenesis as a collective intelligence and some specifics about cognitive glue. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intro: Diverse Intelli...

Discussion with Kevin Mitchell, Nick Cheney, and Ben Hartl on Evolution, Development, Generative Models

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Be...

Aastha Jain Simes & I Interview Mustafa Djamgoz, Foundational Contributor to Cancer Bioelectricity

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is another episode in our series on the great figures in developmental bioelectricity. We interview (~1 hour) Mustafa Djamgoz, who has made pivot...

Conversation 1 with Alex Schmidt and Alexey Tolchinsky

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Dr. Alex Schmidt (www.schmidtpsychologicalservices.com) and Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D. (https://montgomerycountypsych...

Discussion with Richard Watson and Josh Bongard

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Conversation between Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and I on Irruption Theory, Polycomputing, and Minds

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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-...

Conversation Between Josh Bongard, Atoosa Parsa, Richard Watson, and I

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ~50 minute conversation between Josh Bongard (https://www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/profiles/josh_bongard), Atoosa Parsa (https://www.atoosaparsa.com/...