Thoughtforms Life

Michael Levin

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.

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Thoughtforms Life

Episodes (200)

Oct 31st Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin
Oct 17th "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a continuum of cognition (& consciousness) by Michael Levin
Oct 16th "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" by Michael Levin

Thoughtforms Life

Oct 31, 2026
35 minutes
64 MB

This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology and computer science of inspiration within and without us" that I gave right before Chris Fields, at a recent philosophy conference. Still working on different ways to present the concept of patterns as behavioral policies, their origin, and applications of this idea. CHAPTERS: (00:00) Policies of navigation (04:40) Biological free lunches (10:15) Molecular learning ratchets (14:00) Competencies of xenobots (20:48) Latent space of patterns (27:12) Embodied mathematical minds PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast...

Thoughtforms Life

Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin

Michael Levin

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