#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel
ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in
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Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmichaellevin Michael's
Website: https://drmichaellevin.org Michael's Papers: Biological
Robots: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880 Synthetic Organisms:
https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19420889.2021.2005863 Limb
Regeneration: https://science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2164
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https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for
the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:40)
- Embryogenesis (14:08) - Xenobots: biological robots (27:55) -
Sense of self (37:27) - Multi-scale competency architecture (48:58)
- Free will (58:27) - Bioelectricity (1:11:44) - Planaria (1:23:33)
- Building xenobots (1:47:08) - Unconventional cognition (2:11:39)
- Origin of evolution (2:18:42) - Synthetic organisms (2:25:27) -
Regenerative medicine (2:29:14) - Cancer suppression (2:33:15) -
Viruses (2:38:28) - Cognitive light cones (2:43:03) - Advice for
young people (2:47:47) - Death (2:57:17) - Meaning of life