Theories of Consciousness
No.1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down
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AI & Machine MindsMeet The Scientist Redefining Intelligence With Michael Levin
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… at all, and that biology has spent a century mistaking one for the other. With Michael Levin he published Natural Induction, which shows that any network whose connections …
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Philosopher Investigating The Platonic Space of Minds with Michael Levin
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…defending careful, sober naturalism. He just co-authored a paper with biologist Michael Levin arguing that the shape of your body — and maybe your mind — is pulled from a no…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to Michael Levins Xenobots
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…ist who builds nervous systems from scratch — the scientist who gave neurons to Michael Levin's xenobots, the living robots made from frog cells. When those neurons self-org…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMichael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots
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…ant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Michael Levin is a developmental biologist who builds living creatures that have never existe…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMichael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots
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Get 1 Month FREE Consensus AI: https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Dr. Michael Levin is a biologist, computer scientist, and co-creator of the Xenobot — the world’s…
AI & Machine MindsMeet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG
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…e agentic systems that come next, whether a paramecium could be conscious, what Michael Levin's neuron-growing biobots tell us about minds, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:0…
Theories of ConsciousnessDenis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
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Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionChris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
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…he first complete genome to quantum information theory — now collaborating with Michael Levin and Karl Friston to rewrite how we understand life and consciousness. His centr…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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…that guides wound healing in humans, why Min stops short of fully agreeing with Michael Levin on whether cells count as agents, and where the fight between bioelectricity an…
Telepathy & PsiMeet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy
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Near-Death ExperiencesNo. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"
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Mental ImageryMeet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
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Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence
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…rl Friston (Free Energy Principle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmY Michael Levin (Synthetic Life, Bioelectricity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM P…
DMTTop Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming
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… Scientist Makes My Arm Levitate Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQ Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: htt…
DMTTop Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming
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…s Scientist Makes My Arm Levitate Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQ Michael Levin - Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/L…
AI & Machine MindsMeet The Scientist Growing Mini Brains In A Lab
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…ated The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://youtu.be/R-IZOFs4qmY Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: htt…
AI & Machine MindsMeet The Scientist Growing Mini Brains In A Lab
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…ated The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://youtu.be/R-IZOFs4qmY Michael Levin - Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/L…
No.1 Plant Neurobiologist: Plant Conciousness, Root Brains & The Sentient Cell
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Meet The Greatest Plant Neurobiologist You've Never Heard Of
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…umours may be cells that have lost their map of the body GS EPISODES MENTIONED Michael Levin - Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/L…
Meet The Cellular Biologist Who Thinks He Knows What Life Is
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Meet The Scientist Who Says We’ve Gotten Cancer Completely Wrong
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…gency: how life, proliferation and motility fit together GS EPISODES MENTIONED Michael Levin - Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/L…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information
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…sing, deciding and minimally aware - The Levin divide: where she draws the line Michael Levin won't - Anaesthetised bacteria: why ether switches off organisms with no brain …
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information
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…sing, deciding and minimally aware - The Levin divide: where she draws the line Michael Levin won't - Anaesthetised bacteria: why ether switches off organisms with no brain …
Meet The Greatest Time Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of
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…test Emotion Neuroscientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/u_yCcxQsKn0 Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: htt…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
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…l Than Genes? 0:46:03 When Electric Fields Override Genetics Entirely 1:01:19 Michael Levin's Xenobots, Debated 1:12:04 Do We Still Carry a Flatworm's Regenerative Power?…
DMTConsciousness Expert Ranks Every Drug By Intensity Of Experience
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…They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEgbv6IHYaY Michael Levin & Earl Miller — Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Ne…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet the Neuroscientist Investigating Language and the Platonic Space
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…e "lunch" can be food, an event, and a time all at once, where Elliot stands on Michael Levin's idea that meaning lives in a Platonic space, why he thinks large language mod…
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!
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…sis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GkE4YtLRk Michael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: htt…
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!
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…. And I would spend it actually on these research programs, very much like what Michael Levin is doing, right? And I think you're referring to this type of research where yo…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
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…e To Appear 01:28:09 Cognitive Selection: The Real Driver of Evolution 01:34:02 Michael Levin, Morphogenesis and Where the Body's Blueprint Actually Lives 01:39:47 You Never…
Theories of ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"
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…outu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw Meet the Scientist Creating New Forms of Synthetic Life! Dr Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.y…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot
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…pable of movement, healing, and even self-replication. Together with biologist Michael Levin, Bongard’s work is upending some of biology’s most sacred assumptions: that DNA…
Theories of ConsciousnessJoscha Bach: “The Nature Of Reality is Even Weirder Than We Previously Thought”
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…complex systems learn to model themselves. We also explore the implications of Michael Levin’s work, the ethics of synthetic selves, why nature is already computational, an…
Evolution & GeneticsBiology Is Cognition The Whole Way Down! Best of Giant's Shoulder 2025
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…sed the best moments from a year of Giant conversations with scientists such as Michael Levin, Terrence Deacon, Anna Ciaunica and more on Diverse Intelligence and multi-scal…
Theories of Consciousness42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Giants Shoulder 2025
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… episode of the entire year! You’ll hear groundbreaking ideas from Anil Seth, Michael Levin, Nick Lane, Peter Godfrey Smith and Mark Solms as they explore the deepest scie…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!
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…ooperation, how bioelectric communication could unlock regeneration, what makes Michael Levin’s living “Xenobots” so revolutionary, why AI can’t be conscious without boundar…
Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!
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…with humans and artificial agents reshape our self-model, and collaborates with Michael Levin on “From Cells to Selves.” Consciousness isn’t just in your head—**biology is …
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the Neuroscientist Unifying Consciousness, Free Energy & Psychedelics!
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…ns’ Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research, now a staff scientist with Michael Levin at Tufts’ Allen Discovery Center. He’s the architect of the Integrated World Mo…
Perception & RealityThe Slime Mold "Intelligence" Illusion, Artificial Life and Why De-Extinction Is Mostly Marketing!
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…can reboot entire fields of biology. ... Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Michael Levin Slime Mold Debate 05:20 Intelligence vs. Instinct 08:20 The Role of Language in…
PsilocybinMeet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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… that these... was speaking to Adam Safran, who's studied psychedelics a lot in Michael Levin's lab. And he thinks there might be sense that these mischievous mechanical DMT…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness
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…it's hard to say, experience, but definitely agency behavior. I'm a huge fan of Michael Levin, who's showing these really sophisticated behaviors in very simple Chris (01:1…