{"id":147984,"date":"2022-10-11T19:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/michael-levin-on-the-foundations-of-cognition-thing-in-itself-w-ashar-khan"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:23:04","slug":"michael-levin-on-the-foundations-of-cognition-thing-in-itself-w-ashar-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/michael-levin-on-the-foundations-of-cognition-thing-in-itself-w-ashar-khan","title":{"rendered":"Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition | Thing in itself w\/ Ashar Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C96Hq8kDORU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of biology. He is a director of the Allen Discovery Center, director at the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, and principal investigator at the Levin Lab.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 intro.<br \/> 1:38 bioelectricity and developmental biology.<br \/> 7:56 memory and conditioning in GRNs.<br \/> 11:50 is there a privileged cognitive substrate?<br \/> 13:55 Godel type limits.<br \/> 15:45 multi-scale competency architecture.<br \/> 25:12 intelligence.<br \/> 27:00 conceptual framework for cognition.<br \/> 29:45 does cognition bottom out somewhere?<br \/> 36:47 synthetic cognition.<br \/> 39:23 sci-fi that captures this well.<br \/> 45:16 consciousness, hard problem, and the consciousness of development.<br \/> 51:09 where does the self come from?<br \/> 54:06 how do different emergent levels interact.<br \/> 56:50 top-down causality.<br \/> 1:02:28 where do goals come from?<br \/> 1:07:06 balancing conceptual and empirical work.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Levin\u2019s Website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/biology\/labs\/levin\/\">https:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/biology\/labs\/levin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Podcast.<br \/> Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0dUBLTl6qzOfA0xMndLFzq\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0dUBLTl6qzOfA0xMndLFzq<\/a>.<br \/> Google: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWRjaXJjbGUuY29tLzllMmRkOTcyLWJkYmEtNDcyYy1hZDNiLTRiMDgzZTFhNDFhMw%3D%3D\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWR\u2026FhMw%3D%3D<\/a><br \/> Apple: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/thing-in-it-self\/id1616881426\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/thing-in-it-self\/id1616881426<\/a><br \/> Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.ca\/podcasts\/9c6c08b2-e975-47d6-a897-46cb976d373c\/thing-in-it-self\">https:\/\/music.amazon.ca\/podcasts\/9c6c08b2-e975-47d6-a897\u2026in-it-self<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Social.<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinginitself__\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinginitself__<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thinginitself.pod\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thinginitself.pod\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of biology. 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