Thoughtforms Life

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

A talk I have at the University of Hertfordshire CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Biology hacking itself, Xenobots, and morphogenesis CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Mike Gazzaniga, Richard Watson, and I discuss split brains, minds, confabulation, and consciousness. Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ Mike Gazzaniga - https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/michael/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

We discuss what the relationship is between intelligence and agency (since my definition of intelligence focuses on competency for goal-directed problem-solving), AI, biological evolution, and what is important about maintaining humanity in the deep future. CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

A working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum of being. Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/ The poem I was referring to half-way through is this one: It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know  what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s  longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you  will risk looking like a fool for love, for y... CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Richard Watson, futurist and systems thinker, and Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist and author on brain lateralization, join Michael Levin for a wide-ranging chat. They explore brain lateralization and why organisms defy simple mechanical explanations. They compare top-down and bottom-up processes, use musical metaphors for emergence, and debate what separates machines from living systems.

This is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

A working meeting between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/ Douglas Brash - https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/douglas-brash/ CONNECT WITH ME: Podcast Website YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Blog The Levin Lab

Richard Watson, futurist studying evolution, learning and machine intelligence, and Iain McGilchrist, neuropsychiatrist probing brain hemisphere differences, join Michael Levin for a wide-ranging conversation. They explore whether evolution can be intelligent, how brains balance induction and deduction, where biological form and memory reside, and how simple feedback scales into goal-directed anatomy. Short, speculative, and provocative.