Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Intro.
00:30 — Biggest Myths of Biology.
07:18 — Tying Michael’s Work Together.
35:25 — Who Are We (Humans)?
56:10 — Cognition.
01:14:10 — Conscious Agents.
01:33:25 — Bioelectricity and Cancer.
02:16:15 — Support TOE
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Links Mentioned:
Michael’s paper on cognition — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
Gabriele Carcassi Video — • Newtonian/Lagrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics…
Michael Levin’s blog post on advice — https://thoughtforms.life/what-advice…
TOE ep with Levin, Tung and Gumuskaya — • New Groundbreaking Research, Anthrobots, H…
TOE ep with Levin — • Unveiling the Mind-Blowing Biotech of Rege…
TOE ep with Bach and Levin — • Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach: Collective In…
TOE ep with Lang, Friston and Levin — • Levin Λ Friston Λ Fields: \.