Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research

Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.

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Links Mentioned:
Michael’s paper on cognition – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935032/pdf/rstb.2019.0750.pdf
Gabriele Carcassi Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNW7NHwnuM
Michael Levin’s blog post on advice – https://thoughtforms.life/what-advice-do-i-give-to-my-students/
TOE ep with Levin, Tung and Gumuskaya – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6GIzNM0aM
TOE ep with Levin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc
TOE ep with Bach and Levin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgMFnfB5E_A
TOE ep with Lang, Friston and Levin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eJ44Jq_pw
TOE ep with Iain McGilchrist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4

Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Biggest Myths of Biology
07:18 – Tying Michael’s Work Together
35:25 – What Are Humans?
56:05 – Basal Cognition
01:14:10 – Conscious Agents
01:33:25 – Bioelectricity and Cancer
02:16:15 – Support TOE

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