Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael Levin
Description
This is a ~1 hour 15 minute talk titled "Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence: how Platonic Space in-forms evolved, engineered, and hybrid embodied minds", which is the kickoff talk for our Symposium on Platonic Space (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/). Here I go slowly step by step to review the data that motivates this unconventional way to look at biology, and then (at around minute 47) present a speculative model and a research program we are pursuing to test and extend these ideas in a practical way.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00 ) Patterns Across Biological Spaces
(15:07 ) Goal-Directed Anatomical Homeostasis
(25:01 ) Beyond Genetics and Selection
(31:50 ) Synthetic Xenobots and Anthrobots
(42:52 ) Platonic Patterns Versus Emergence
(55:12 ) Physical Systems as Interfaces
(01:04:50 ) Summary, Implications, Research Program
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