Life, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence Perspective
This is a very fast (~33min) flyover of some ideas relevant to the relationship between biology, computation, cognition, consciousness, and related subjects. This was given at the amazing Progress and...
13 Maalis 202533min
Cellular Automata and Models of Health and Disease
This is a ~35 minute discussion with Willem Nielsen (https://community.wolfram.com/web/wrn2001, https://medium.com/@wnielsen) from the Wolfram Institute about their cellular automata models of disease...
11 Maalis 202535min
Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
This is an ~1 hour 10 minute conversation with Iain McGilchrist (https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/), on the topic of my recent paper on the Platonic Space (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5g2xj_v...
4 Maalis 20251h 11min
Bioelectric Networks: An Interface to Engineering with the Agential Material of Life
This is a ~1 hour talk (given at the Departmental Seminar series at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences) on the use of a cognitive approach to bioengineering an...
1 Maalis 20251h 2min
Aastha Jain Simes and I Interview Pamela Lyon
This a ~1 hour 20 minute conversation between Aastha Jain Simes (https://www.livelongerworld.com/), Pamela Lyon (https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=1oY1J5kAAAAJ&hl=en), and I. Pamela is a ke...
25 Helmi 20251h 19min
Discussion with Mayli Mertens on Molecular Placebos and Bioelectricity
This is a ~30 minute conversation with Mayli Mertens (Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at University of Antwerp, https://philpeople.org/profiles/mayli-mertens) and I on the topic of molecular placebos,...
24 Helmi 202529min
Biological and Technological Information Processing: Commonalities, Differences and Implications
This is a ~1 hr talk on what is similar and what is different between biological and (current) technological information-processing systems, and the implications for biomedicine, AI, and ethics. A ver...
21 Helmi 20251h
Conversation 2 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin
This is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-babcock), Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/...
17 Helmi 202559min
