Thoughtforms Life

This is a discussion with with Lisa Feldman Barrett (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WF5c0_8AAAAJ&hl=en), Benjamin Lyons (https://interestingessays.substack.com/), Eli Sennesh (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3z4ALYgAAAAJ), Jordan Theriault-Brown (http://www.jordan-theriault.com/), and Karen Quigley (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aZ3qhVUAAAAJ&hl=en) about topics related to allostasis and top-down control across cognitive science and developmental biology.



CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Framing interdisciplinary synthesis

(03:18) Bioelectric collective intelligence

(16:00) Constraints versus bioelectric memory

(20:06) Neurodevelopment and allostasis

(27:10) Plasticity and dirty genomes

(35:59) Relational structure and constraints

(40:24) Agency across biological scales

(45:04) Goal-like molecular networks

(48:49) Allostasis and control hierarchies



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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.