"Bioelectricity: a bridge between physics and cognition, by way of biology" by Michael Levin

This is a ~22 minute talk that I gave remotely at the Tech For Impact Summit 2025 in Japan (https://tech4impactsummit.com/). It goes very quickly over the idea of bioelectricity as the cognitive glue between different scales of intelligence at the body, allowing top-down control and transduction of high-level goals down to the chemistry. I discuss the idea of agential materials, the goals of novel beings, and the implications for the future of biomedicine and beyond.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Mind Body Bioelectric Bridge

(02:33) Agential Cells, Competent Matter

(04:55) Regeneration And Global Goals

(08:11) Decoding Embryonic Bioelectric Patterns

(11:34) Rewriting Bodily Pattern Memories

(14:04) Bioelectric Repatterning And Regeneration

(16:31) Anthrobots And Platonic Possibilities

(20:11) Future Biomedicine And Ethics

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