Thoughtforms Life

This is a ~1 hour 3 minute conversation with Marsha Hewitt (https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/profiles/hewitt-marsha/), who wanted to clarify some issues around the Platonic Space and related ideas from the perspective of her teaching students in her philosophy and psychoanalytic psychology of religion class.



CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intersecting philosophy and science

(09:52) Ethics of artificial minds

(15:47) Structured space of patterns

(31:20) Embodiment as a filter

(39:36) Dualism versus monism debate

(49:51) Agency in developmental biology

(56:25) Communicating with alien minds



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What is Thoughtforms Life?

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.