Where Biology Goes Off the Rails - Dr. Michael Levin, DemystifySci #369

Michael Levin is a synthetic biologist at Tufts University who
believes that asking questions about “life” is a fruitless
project. Instead, he argues that we ought to be trying to
understand the emergence of cognition - a feature that he
believes appears long before cells emerge. As part of this
project, Levin has started to pull on a series of threads woven
through the origin of life debate that seem to show basic
elements of thinking systems - habituation, sensitization,
conditioning - can be found in simple physical networks. We dig
into how these systems work, what they reveal about life, and how
his approach to understanding nature resolves a lot of biological
paradoxes.





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00:05:11 Exploring the Origins and Definitions of Life


00:11:30 The Complexity of Defining Life


00:14:30 The Limitations of Scientific Categories


00:17:58 Re-evaluating Life and Cognition


00:19:40 Theoretical Perspectives on Life


00:20:08 The Spectrum of Cognition and the Re-enchantment of
Nature


00:24:09 Experimental Approaches to Understanding Cognition in
Networks


00:30:14 Feedback Loops in Learning and Causal Emergence


00:35:34 The Role of Chemical Interactions in the Origins of Life


00:39:27 Discussion on Learning and Molecular Networks


00:41:35 The Nature of Complexity and Consciousness


00:45:04 Science and the Crisis of Meaning


00:49:34 Expanding Compassion in Understanding Life


00:54:13 Methodology of Chemical Experimentation


00:58:53 Analysis at Different System Levels


01:01:56 Causal Powers of Networks


01:04:31 Collective Intelligence in Biological Systems





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