Michael Levin
@drmichaellevin
Scientist at Tufts University; my lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems.
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http://www.drmichaellevin.org 29-05-2013 12:07:46
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Looking to hire a postdoc to do AI-designed biology with Michael Levin and myself.
Please RT; DM if interested.
Here's what happened the last time we teamed up:
youtube.com/watch?v=8WyWFA…
Some interesting stuff at this channel:
youtube.com/c/CrossLabs (Olaf Witkowski)
including yesterday's panel session
Fernando Rosas Clément Vidal Hector Zenil led by Alyssa Adams (cur10.us)
'After Babel: Talking to Aliens & the Mathematics of Communication'
Prompted by wjmccartan-Billy, I updated my insufficient words about Dan Dennett
thoughtforms.life/farewell-dan-d… with audio of a talk by him in our lab,
I have no video, but if you scroll down to the end of the post, there is now a link to an audio recording of a lecture he gave; ~ hour
A really interesting, detailed talk given to our group by Joscha Bach : Cyber Animism
youtu.be/YZl4zom3q2g
(sorry for the first version I uploaded and had to take down, turns out that zoom somehow added a 2nd, blank audio track and it was killing the sound)
Some thoughts on AI and related issues, from the perspective of Diverse Intelligence:
noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-…
thank you peter mellgard Claire Isabel Webb !
New review - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Swarnalatha Balasubramanian, David A. Weston, Devon Charles Cardoso Davidian, and I.
AstraZeneca
Electroceuticals: emerging applications beyond the nervous system and excitable tissues
We have a new preprint on optical patterning of Nodal signaling in zebrafish embryos: using light to sculpt embryonic development!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Beautiful work led by Nathan Lord and Harry McNamara
It’s amazing how many empirical features of interactions and collective response can emerge from a simple imperative: to minimize surprise. Out today in PNAS PNASNews - with Conor Heins Richard Mann Karl Friston and colleagues! Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Society pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
New review!
Cognition is an emergent property
doi.org/10.1016/j.cobe…
Electrical fields in the brain can serve as a medium for propagating activity nearly instantaneously. They can organize computations through subspace coding.
MIT Picower Institute MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
#neuroscience
We wrote an opinion piece on biological computations, discussing the challenges of current theoretical frameworks and possible roads forward. We propose learning from single cell- and generalizing the principles to neuronal-computations MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar
arxiv.org/abs/2404.10369
Paper! Imagine walking on the floor with your hands…We made this for living tissues using E-cadherin (cell handshake protein). Cells treat the floor as a giant cell and ‘get weird’—>new biomedical material! Hurray KevinSuh*/ElenaCho*,Isaac Breinyn. doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…! 🧵