Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Meet 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
1h 6m 27K
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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…
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…
Theories of ConsciousnessDenis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
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…il for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned Michael Levin — Meet the Scientist Creating New Forms of Synthetic Life! Dr Michael Levin: ht…
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 Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 15m 27K
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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…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
1h 58m 3.8K
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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 ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!
1h 38m 4.6K
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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…
Theories of ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!
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…t I love for this is biology. Is cognition the whole way down. This is sort of Michael Levin's work and Anna Chernick, and it's just such a beautiful way of understanding b…
Near-Death ExperiencesNo. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"
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Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence
1h 17m 1.7K
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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…
Evolution & GeneticsBiology Is Cognition The Whole Way Down! Best of Giant's Shoulder 2025
1h 19m 3.5K
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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…
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?…
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…
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”
1h 58m 20K
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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…
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…
Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!
1h 42m 1.4K
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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 …
Theories of ConsciousnessNeuroscientist Explains The 3 Levels Of Sentience: Plants, Animals & Humans
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…e there are two simple they don't model their environment. I think maybe it was Michael Levin who changed my mind, or maybe Peter Godfrey Smith, or like Arnold Saff, maybe j…