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Thoughtforms Life

Thoughtforms Life

By: Michael Levin
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 A podcast by Professor Michael Levin exploring the frontiers of biology, cognition, and emergence. Engage in conversations about morphogenesis, bioelectricity, and synthetic life — and uncover how intelligence and agency emerge from the most fundamental levels of nature.© 2025 Michael Levin / Thoughtforms Life Science
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  • Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin

    Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin
    Aug 28 2025
    This is a ~1 hour 15 minute talk titled "Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence: how Platonic Space in-forms evolved, engineered, and hybrid embodied minds", which is the kickoff talk for our Symposium on Platonic Space (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/). Here I go slowly step by step to review the data that motivates this unconventional way to look at biology, and then (at around minute 47) present a speculative model and a research program we are pursuing to t...

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Biological and Technological Information Processing

    Biological and Technological Information Processing
    Aug 18 2025
    This is a ~35 minute talk on commonalities and differences between biological and technological information processing, and the implications for AI (given at the AGI-25 conference in Iceland). The full program, including Hananel Hazan's talk (which is the 2nd half of mine), is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdftA37yZJw.

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    36 mins
  • Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael Levin

    Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael Levin
    Aug 6 2025
    This is a ~46 minute talk given at a conference on consciousness, presenting my lab's data on cognition in body organs outside the brain and then some speculations about the mind-body connection more generally (fleshing out my Platonic space model with symmetries between brain:mind relationships and mathematics:physics relationships).

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    47 mins
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