"Unconventional Embodiments: model systems & strategies addressing mind-blindness" by Michael Levin

This is a ~45 minute talk for an embodied cognition audience, covering my framework for diverse intelligence, our use of morphogenesis as a model system for communicating with unconventional minds, and my views on our new MomBot platform and how it helps understand the symmetries between science and agency, and the novel group minds consisting of technology, living matter, and scientists themselves.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Framing Novel Beings

(04:56) Developmental Mind Continuum

(09:40) Memory Beyond Brains

(15:08) Cells Navigating Morphospace

(18:13) Cognitive Light Cones

(22:38) Bioelectric Communication Interface

(29:51) Xenobots and Anthrobots

(35:45) MomBot Embodied AI

(42:47) Applications and Ethical Futures

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