{"id":213840,"date":"2025-05-12T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/on-memory-as-a-self-adapting-agent"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:24:05","slug":"on-memory-as-a-self-adapting-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/on-memory-as-a-self-adapting-agent","title":{"rendered":"On Memory as a Self-Adapting Agent"},"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\/DdXcV3dXa_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We discuss Michael Levin\u2019s paper \u201cSelf-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue.\u201d Levin is a scientist at Tufts University, his lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making across biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. His work spans developmental biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science. \ud83c\udfa5 Next, watch my first interview with Michael Levin\u2026 What are Cognitive Light Cones? <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \u2022 What are Cognitive Light Cones? (Mich\u2026 \u2776 Memories as Agents 0:00 Introduction 1:40 2024 Highlights from Levin Lab 3:20 Stress sharing paper summary 6:15 Paradox of change: Species persist don\u2019t evolve 7:20 Bow-tie architectures 10:00 \ud83d\udd25 Memories as messages from your past self 12:50 Polycomputing 16:45 Confabulation 17:55 What evidence supports the idea that memories are agential? 22:00 Thought experiment: Entities from earth\u2019s core \u2777 Information Patterns 31:30 Memory is not a filing cabinet 32:30 Are information patterns agential? 35:00 \ud83d\udd25 Caterpillar\/butterfly\u2026 sea slug memory transfer 37:40 Bow-tie architectures are EVERYWHERE 43:20 Bottlenecks \u201cscary\u201d for information \u2778 Connections &amp; Implications 45:30 \ud83d\udd25 Black holes\/white holes as bow-ties (Lee Smolin) 47:20 What is confabulation? AI hallucinations 52:30 Gregg Henriques &amp; self-justifying apes\u2026 all good agents storytellers 54:20 Information telling stories\u2026 Joseph Campbell\u2019s journey for a single cell 1:00:50 What comes next? \ud83d\udebe Works Cited \ud83d\udea9 Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1099-4300\/26\/6\/481\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1099-4300\/26\/6\/481<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtforms.life\/suti-the-se\">https:\/\/thoughtforms.life\/suti-the-se<\/a>\u2026 our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin (Big Think 2023) <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \u2022 Biohacking our way to health with rob\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/peregrinecr.com\/\">https:\/\/peregrinecr.com\/<\/a> \ud83d\ude80 What is this channel? Exploring Truth in philosophy, science, &amp; art. We\u2019ll uncover concepts from psychology, mythology, spirituality, literature, media, and more. If you like Lex Fridman or Curt Jaimungal, you\u2019ll love this educational channel. p.s. Please subscribe! Young channel here. =) #science #memory #biology #computing #mind #intelligence #attractor #polycomputing #bioelectric #cybernetics #research #life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discuss Michael Levin\u2019s paper \u201cSelf-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue.\u201d Levin is a scientist at Tufts University, his lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making across biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. His work spans developmental biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science. \ud83c\udfa5 Next, watch my first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,33,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-cosmology","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213840","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=213840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}