Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space by Michael Levin

This is a talk I gave, ~49 minutes long, titled "Free Lunches: Model Systems for Studying the Agential Gifts from the Platonic Space", to a philosophy audience. It covers some more ways I think about the latent space of patterns that in-forms biology and cognitive science.

CHAPTERS:

(00:02) Research program overview

(05:15) Dissolving old categories

(10:54) Goal-directed morphogenesis basics

(14:11) Rewriting bioelectric patterns

(19:23) Novel embodied abilities

(23:35) Molecular agency ratchet

(27:33) Math and living forms

(33:31) Evolutionary accounting breaks

(41:04) High agency patterns

(47:01) Diverse intelligence future

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