Thoughtforms Life

Chris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss what novel behaviors are (in the context of problem-solving in novel circumstances), consciousness in explanted brain pieces, and sleep in unconventional agents. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

This is a ~1 hour talk by Mike Levin on the bioelectrics of cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and collective intelligence of morphogenesis. The full title is: "Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer: a perspective on cancer as a disease of dynamic geometry" CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Working meeting between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and I where we discuss error correction (and who decides what's an error), quantum aspects generalized to the larger world, decoherence, observers, and Patrick Grim's fascinating work on adding a time dimension to logic to enable contradictions and self-referential paradoxes to be manipulated as fractal structures. Chris Fields: https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/ Richard Watson: https://www.richardawatson.com/ Patrick Grim: http://www.pgrim... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

We discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history and anticipation, free will and responsibility, what learning (generalizing) agents bring to the table beyond the input data, truly alien aliens, and whether your brain is really necessary (e.g., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more. Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

A 30-minute talk on implications of my work for the study of consciousness (fyi, I do not offer a new theory of consciousness or try to support/rule out any of the existing ToC's; I talk about reasons to suspect consciousness in other parts of bodies than the brain and other diverse embodiments). CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Conversation between Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and I. Mostly about the nature of explanation in developmental biology and bioengineering. Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Discussion between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and I about brains, agency, and more. Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Richard Watson, interdisciplinary theorist linking physics and information to cognition. Chris Fields, researcher connecting physics, computation, and biological minds. They explore error-correcting codes, multi-scale controls, phase-locking and harmonics, how detectors and coarse-graining create discrete modes, and the tension between reductionism and high-level descriptions.

A meeting between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and I: active inference, qualia, consciousness, brains, bacteria, and more. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab