{"id":239423,"date":"2026-06-22T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/memory-agency-and-learning-in-biological-and-ai-systems-with-michael-levin-and-katrina-schleisman"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:32","slug":"memory-agency-and-learning-in-biological-and-ai-systems-with-michael-levin-and-katrina-schleisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/memory-agency-and-learning-in-biological-and-ai-systems-with-michael-levin-and-katrina-schleisman","title":{"rendered":"Memory, agency, and learning in biological and AI systems with Michael Levin and Katrina Schleisman"},"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\/H1-nOfSLh-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if memory isn\u2019t storage at all \u2014 but a message from your past self that has to be interpreted?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, biologist Michael Levin and cognitive neuroscientist Katrina Schleisman join me to take apart one of the most quietly broken ideas in science and AI: that memory works like a hard drive. It doesn\u2019t. And once you see why, a lot of assumptions about minds, machines, and what it means to \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if memory isn\u2019t storage at all \u2014 but a message from your past self that has to be interpreted? In this episode, biologist Michael Levin and cognitive neuroscientist Katrina Schleisman join me to take apart one of the most quietly broken ideas in science and AI: that memory works like a hard drive. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239423","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=239423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}