{"id":213808,"date":"2025-05-12T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/embodied-minds-and-cognitive-agents-with-dr-michael-levin"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:07:56","slug":"embodied-minds-and-cognitive-agents-with-dr-michael-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/embodied-minds-and-cognitive-agents-with-dr-michael-levin","title":{"rendered":"Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents with Dr Michael Levin"},"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\/_dU_YUEPRRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Dr. Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins Nathan Labenz of \u202a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CognitiveRevolutionAI\">@CognitiveRevolutionAI<\/a>\u202c Podcast to discuss embodied minds, his research into limb regeneration and collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and much more. Dr. Levin and the Levin Lab work at the intersection of biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan just recorded a second episode with Michael Levin, on view at \u2022 Convergent Evolution: The Co-Revoluti\u2026 \u2014 \ud83d\udcf0 Be notified early when Turpentine\u2019s drops new publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turpentine.co\/exclusiveac\">https:\/\/www.turpentine.co\/exclusiveac<\/a>\u2026 RECOMMENDED PODCAST: \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f \u202a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CognitiveRevolutionPodcast\">@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast<\/a>\u202c The Cognitive Revolution is a podcast about AI where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock over the next decades. Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6yHyok3\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6yHyok3<\/a>\u2026 Apple: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast<\/a>\u2026 \u2014 SPONSORS: \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Dealcraft | Insights from Great Negotiators <a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/3CG3TbHY?sid=T\">https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/3CG3TbHY?sid=T<\/a>\u2026 is the brand new weekly podcast that features interviews with world\u2019s greatest dealmakers and diplomats, including Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and music industry super-lawyer John Branca, on their most challenging negotiations. Each episode, host Jim Sebenius (Harvard Business School professor and renowned negotiation expert) relates fascinating deal stories and distills useful insights for listeners to apply in their toughest deals and disputes. \ud83d\udcdd Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you \u2014 try it for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.com\/product\/ai?utm\">https:\/\/www.notion.com\/product\/ai?utm<\/a>\u2026 \ud83d\udca5 Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to <a href=\"https:\/\/choosesquad.com\/\">https:\/\/choosesquad.com\/<\/a> and mention \u201cTurpentine\u201d to skip the waitlist. \u2014 LINKS: The Levin Lab and Dr. Michael Levin\u2019s research: <a href=\"https:\/\/drmichaellevin.org\/resources\/\">https:\/\/drmichaellevin.org\/resources\/<\/a> Dr Michael Levin\u2019s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtforms.life\/about\/\">https:\/\/thoughtforms.life\/about\/<\/a> Tufts University Faculty Profile: <a href=\"https:\/\/as.tufts.edu\/biology\/people\/f\">https:\/\/as.tufts.edu\/biology\/people\/f<\/a>\u2026 Michael Levin @ Wyss Institute: <a href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/team\/associa\">https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/team\/associa<\/a>\u2026 Dr. Levin\u2019s Research on Limb Regeneration: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/how-bioelec\">https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/how-bioelec<\/a>\u2026 \u2014 X \/ TWITTER: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labenz\">@labenz<\/a> (Nathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmichaellevin\">@drmichaellevin<\/a> (Michael) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CogRev_Podcast\">@CogRev_Podcast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TurpentineMedia\">@TurpentineMedia<\/a> \u2014 TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (04:50) Xenobots, anthrobots and the other creatures created by Mike Levin (08:50) Bioelectric memory rewriting (14:09) Sponsors: Dealcraft | Notion (16:17) The difficulty of conducting simulations, which involve running forward passes to predict and alter electrical patterns (20:38) The concept of backpropagation and mode switching in AI models (23:12) Why humans do not regenerate their limbs (37:10) Sponsor: Squad (38:19) Learning from small and biological systems onto the concept of possible emergence (45:01) The criticality of multiple scale questions and would a single scale? (55:40) The concept of the cognitive light cone (59:34) Advice on habits of mind and suggestions for inspiration on the AI side (1:13:19) Mike\u2019s suggested directions for the AI developers (1:23:41) Wrap.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 Be notified early when Turpentine\u2019s drops new publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turpentine.co\/exclusiveac\">https:\/\/www.turpentine.co\/exclusiveac<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<br \/> RECOMMENDED PODCAST:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Dr. Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins Nathan Labenz of \u202a@CognitiveRevolutionAI\u202c Podcast to discuss embodied minds, his research into limb regeneration and collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and much more. 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