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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 h et 14 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin

    Against Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael Levin
    Jul 22 2025
    This is a ~1 hour 7 minute talk I gave at the SEMF Interdisciplinary School (July 2025, https://semf.org.es/school2025/#speakers-container) on agency ways to think about expanding our ability to detect and communicate with unconventional minds. The same talk but with a lengthy Q&A will be up on the SEMF website.

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    1 h et 7 min
  • Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials

    Beyond Complexity & Emergence: Taming Multiscale Competency in Agential Materials
    Jul 19 2025
    This is a ~54 minute talk given at a workshop on complexity. Many of the examples are the same ones I often talk about but this talk is focused on explaining how biology deals with complexity, and ways to think about complex patterns of form and behavior beyond the conventional approach of emergence.

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    54 min
  • Engineering Agential Materials

    Engineering Agential Materials
    Jul 11 2025
    This is a ~18 min talk plus ~10 min Q&A on a top-down approach to bioengineering and robotics that I gave at the Biohybrid Robotics Symposium in Switzerland in July 2025 (https://biohybrid-robotics.com/).

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    27 min
  • Discussion with Michael Johnson

    Discussion with Michael Johnson
    Jul 9 2025
    This is a ~55 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) covering topics of spectrum of consciousness down to the cell (and below) level, implicit memory and cellular pixels of experience, Platonic space, symmetry breaking, and intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation in systems.

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    55 min
  • Unconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin

    Unconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin
    Jul 7 2025
    "Unconventional selves in novel spaces, scales, and embodiments - a diverse intelligence perspective on a continuum of cognition and consciousness" is a ~1 hour 12 min talk I gave at a conference on consciousness (https://www.hardproblem.it/), as it relates to our work on diverse intelligence and unconventional cognition.

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    1 h et 12 min