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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
Episodes
  • 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 hr and 7 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
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