Theories of Consciousness
No.1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down
1h 25m 19K
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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 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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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…
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!
2h 16m 5.8K
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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…
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"
1h 3m 46K
Mental ImageryMeet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
1h 29m 23K
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…
DMTTop Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming
2h 5m 53K
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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…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information
1h 25m 26K
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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…
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!
1h 46m 2.8K
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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 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…
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the Neuroscientist Unifying Consciousness, Free Energy & Psychedelics!
1h 35m 651
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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
1h 35m 53K
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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
1h 38m 7.5K
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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…
Theories of ConsciousnessIs This Greatest Consciousness Theory You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 49m 1.5K
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… thinking about these things and how, you know, this is very much along sort of Michael Levins train of thought. And, you know, people like him is that these are all continu…
Theories of ConsciousnessNeuroscientist Explains The 3 Levels Of Sentience: Plants, Animals & Humans
1h 49m 6.7K
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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…
Near-Death ExperiencesPhilosopher of Mind: Consciousness, Out-Of-Body Experiences & The Illusion of Self! Thomas Metzinger
1h 49m 4.9K
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…inutes on my stationary bike and I listened to a conversation with yourself and Michael Levin. I really wanted to dive into all of that because that conversation was just tw…