Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.
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Michael Levin's X: https://x.com/drmichaellevin
Michael Levin's Website: https://drmichaellevin.org
Michael Levin's Papers: https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/
Biological Robots: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880
Classical Sorting Algorithms: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375
Aging as a Morphostasis Defect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38636...
TAME: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346
Synthetic Living Machines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:44 - Biological intelligence
9:17 - Living vs non-living organisms
14:30 - Origin of life
18:15 - The search for alien life (on Earth)
51:19 - Creating life in the lab - Xenobots and Anthrobots
1:04:21 - Memories and ideas are living organisms
1:18:02 - Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality
2:03:48 - Unexpected intelligence of sorting algorithms
2:29:26 - Can aging be reversed?
2:33:17 - Mind uploading
2:51:57 - Alien intelligence
3:06:52 - Advice for young people
3:13:21 - Questions for AGI

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