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  • Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology

    Nothing in Biology Makes Sense without Teleology
    Jul 5 2025
    This is a deliberately provocative talk (~1 hour 20 minutes) I gave on teleology (a pretty taboo subject in a lot of the life sciences) delivered at Caltech. I try to go step by step and show the philosophical background of how I think about goal-directedness in physically embodied agents (cells and tissues etc.) and then the data - classic examples and new discoveries that this framework allowed us to make. Editing by https://x.com/DNAMediaEditing

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    1 h et 19 min
  • Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic Intelligence

    Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic Intelligence
    Jun 24 2025

    This is a ~55 min talk by Michael Levin "Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: an interface to somatic intelligence for regenerative medicine", going over the state of the art in developmental bioelectricity in the context of collaborating with the cellular collective intelligence for applications in birth defects, regeneration, and cancer. It has some new material beyond what my recent talks on this topic have covered.


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    51 min
  • Against Mind-Blindness

    Against Mind-Blindness
    Jun 16 2025

    This is a new ~1 hour talk by me on the concept of diverse intelligence, and morphogenesis as a model system with which to practice identifying and communicating with unconventional minds. This is a bit different than previous ones because I explicitly go over examples of how some of our various data on bioelectrics addresses each of several key properties of cellular collectives as *cognitive agents* navigating anatomical morphospace.

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    57 min
  • Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative Medicine

    Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative Medicine
    Jun 6 2025

    This is a ~50 minute talk by me (given at IIT Mandi yesterday) on bioelectricity from the perspective of both, a path to regenerative medicine of birth defects, injury repair, and cancer, and a model system for learning to communicate with unconventional collective intelligences.


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    51 min