{"id":212582,"date":"2025-04-27T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blaise-aguera-y-arcas-and-michael-levin-the-computational-foundations-of-life-and-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-04-27T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:08:38","slug":"blaise-aguera-y-arcas-and-michael-levin-the-computational-foundations-of-life-and-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blaise-aguera-y-arcas-and-michael-levin-the-computational-foundations-of-life-and-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas and Michael Levin: The Computational Foundations of Life and 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\/Vjk3vyUYNZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this remarkable conversation, Michael Levin (Tufts University) and Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas (Google) examine what happens when biology and computation collide at their foundations. Their recent papers\u2014arriving simultaneously yet from distinct intellectual traditions\u2014illuminate how simple rules generate complex behaviors that challenge our understanding of life, intelligence, and agency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this remarkable conversation, Michael Levin (Tufts University) and Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas (Google) examine what happens when biology and computation collide at their foundations. Their recent papers\u2014arriving simultaneously yet from distinct intellectual traditions\u2014illuminate how simple rules generate complex behaviors that challenge our understanding of life, intelligence, and agency. Michael\u2019s \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212582","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=212582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}