{"id":210869,"date":"2025-04-08T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ep-91-michael-levin-on-the-new-frontiers-of-biological-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:14:03","slug":"ep-91-michael-levin-on-the-new-frontiers-of-biological-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ep-91-michael-levin-on-the-new-frontiers-of-biological-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Ep 91: Michael Levin on the New Frontiers of Biological Intelligence"},"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\/X2vBOnGTkfs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Memory, consciousness and the self aren\u2019t what you think they are. Michael Levin joins Vasant Dhar in episode 91 of Brave New World to explain why the distinction between machines and organisms will soon fall apart. Useful resources 1. Michael Levin at Tufts, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google Scholar and The Levin Lab. 2. There\u2019s Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-scale Machines \u2014 Joshua Bondard and Michael Levin. 3. Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue \u2014 Michael Levin. 4. The Space Of Possible Minds \u2014 Michael Levin. 5. Endless forms most beautiful 2.0 \u2014 Wesley Clawson and Michael Levin. 6. My Octopus Teacher \u2014 Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed. 7. Pippa Ehrlich on the Mysteries of the Sea \u2014 Episode 77 of Brave New World. 8. Turing Patterns. 9. Mark Solms\u2019 theory of consciousness \u2014 SelfAwarePatterns. 10. Mark Solms on Consciousness. Check out Vasant Dhar\u2019s newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory, consciousness and the self aren\u2019t what you think they are. Michael Levin joins Vasant Dhar in episode 91 of Brave New World to explain why the distinction between machines and organisms will soon fall apart. Useful resources 1. Michael Levin at Tufts, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google Scholar and The Levin Lab. 2. There\u2019s Plenty of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}