Thoughtforms Life

This is a ~45 minute talk given at the Imagining Summit (https://www.artificiality.world/the-imagining-summit/) on Diverse Intelligence and synthbiosis, approaching those topics via communication with cellular collectives in the context of regenerative medicine. The newer material is at the end.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Diverse Intelligence and Goals
(02:30) Beyond Discrete Natural Kinds
(06:00) Framework for Diverse Intelligences
(11:00) Scaling Minds, Collective Intelligence
(15:30) Self-Creation of Bodies, Minds
(18:30) Anatomical Order, Compiler Vision
(21:30) Agential Material, Problem Solving
(26:30) Bioelectricity as Cognitive Glue
(31:00) Communicating with Collective Intelligence
(34:30) Regenerating Limbs, Healing Wounds
(37:30) Synthetic Life: Xenobots, Anthropods
(42:30) Interoperability, Novel Agents
(45:30) Humility, Patterns in Media
(49:30) Conclusion: Expanding Sentience Idea
(52:30) Acknowledgements and Funders

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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.