Thoughtforms Life

"Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence: what we know and don't know about embodied minds" - a 53-minute talk I gave on what the field of diverse intelligence has to say to AI research (to an audience of non-experts in AI, so it's not very technical on that end). I tried to go a little slower and explain more of the basics and logic.



CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Defining life and machines

(04:16) Expanding the Eden view

(07:41) Collective cellular intelligence

(15:16) Bioelectricity and goal memories

(22:08) Xenobots and novel beings

(31:03) Causal emergence and math

(41:58) Robotics and cognitive prosthetics

(47:48) Communicating with diverse 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.