#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.

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EPISODE LINKS:

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• Michael Levin’s Website
• Michael Levin’s Papers
• – Biological Robots
• – Classical Sorting Algorithms
• – Aging as a Morphostasis Defect
• – TAME
• – Synthetic Living Machines

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:09) – Biological intelligence

(18:42) – Living vs non-living organisms

(23:55) – Origin of life

(27:40) – The search for alien life (on Earth)

(1:00:44) – Creating life in the lab – Xenobots and Anthrobots

(1:13:46) – Memories and ideas are living organisms

(1:27:26) – Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality

(2:13:13) – Unexpected Intelligence in sorting algorithms

(2:38:51) – Can aging be reversed?

(2:42:41) – Mind uploading

(3:01:22) – Alien intelligence

(3:16:17) – Advice for young people

(3:22:46) – Questions for AGI