Talks

2024

• Self-constructing bodies, collective minds: the intersection of computer science, cognitive biology, and philosophy (1 hour 13 minutes) (Philosophy of Computing Symposium at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | November 25, 2024)
• Bioelectricity and genetics: Unraveling the Cognitive Software of Life (1 hour 11 minutes) (The Guy Foundation | November 20, 2024)
• A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering (54 minutes) (Fall BioEngineering Seminar at Northeastern University | November 15, 2024)
• Non-neural intelligence: biological architecture problem-solving in diverse spaces (1 hour) (Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics | November 6, 2024)
• The Bioelectric Interface to the Intelligence of the Body: the future of biomedicine (40 minutes) (Alma Mater Studiorum Bononiensis University of Bologna | September 18, 2024)
• Unconventional Cognition Through the Lens of Cellular Collective Intelligence in Morphogenesis (1 hour 8 minutes) (COGS Seminar | September 17, 2024)
• The Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis: a model system for basal cognition (58 minutes) (Lund University of Sweden | September 17, 2024)
• The Bioelectric basis of morphogenetic intelligence: a roadmap for cancer medicine (46 minutes) (NIH/NCI Bioelectricity and Cancer Meeting | September 12, 2024)
• Agential Interventions: From Diverse Intelligence to Next-generation Biomedicine (1 hour) (Foresight Institute | August 21, 2024)
• LLM Understanding: 27 Michael Levin (1 hour 29 minutes) (UQÀM’s Cognitive Science Institute and McGill University | June 11, 2024)
• DeSciNYC - Bioelectricity with Professor Michael Levin (1 hour 41 minutes) (DeSciNYC | June 3, 2024)
• On Purpose Conference: Michael Levin - Day 3 (1 hour 16 minutes) (Purpose, Agency and Field Thoery - Duke University | May 7, 2024)
• The Mind of the Body: A Window into Embodiment and our Future (28 minutes) (Center for Process Studies | March 30, 2024)
• Bioelectric networks underlie the collective intelligence of morphogenesis (49 minutes) (Department of Psychology, Biology and Cognitive Science seminar, Queen Mary University of London, UK | March 14, 2024)
• Biorobotics: Engineering With Agential Materials (56 minutes) (Distinguished Lecture Series on Engineering with Living Materials, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland | March 18, 2024)
• From molecular physiology to anatomical form (1 hour 3 minutes) (The Guy Foundation Seminar Series | March 10, 2024)
• Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Regenerative Medicine (1 hour 5 minutes) (The Foresight Institute | February 23, 2024)
• A bioelectric interface to the collective intelligence of agential materials for bioengineering (55 minutes) (Biomedical Engineering Seminar series, Carnegie Mellon University | February 22, 2024)

2023

• Bioelectricity as cognitive glue: from diverse intelligence to regenerative medicine (1 hour 4 minutes) (Basal Cognition Talk Series, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany | December 20, 2023)
• Bioelectricity: the Cognitive Glue that Underlies Cellular Collective Intelligence (1 hour) (AbbVie Convergence Seminar Series, Chicago, IL | November 14, 2023)
• Bioelectricity: From Cognitive Glue to Regenerative Medicine with Special Focus on Microbiology/Immunology (59 minutes) (John Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Parasitology/Immunology | November 2, 2023)
• Bioelectricity as the Software of Life: from cognitive glue to regenerative medicine (1 hour) (Colloquium: University of Nebraska School of Computing, Lincoln, NE | October 12, 2023)
• Memory and intelligent problem-solving by unconventional collective intelligences (38 minutes) (UCLA Life Sciences, Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Symposium | October 9, 2023)
• Neuroscience beyond neurons: how bioelectricity underlies the collective intelligence of cellular swarms (1 hour 4 minutes) (Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Canada | October 2, 2023)
• Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine (1 hour 1 minute) (Lowell General Hospital, Presenting Grand Rounds, Lowell, MA | September 27, 2023)
• Emergent Selves and Unconventional Intelligences: where philosophy and engineering meet (1 hour 27 minutes) (Topos Institute Colloquium, Berkeley, CA | September 21, 2023)
• Cancer: From Basal Cognition of Cells To Therapeutics, via Bioelectricity (52 minutes) (Oregon Health & Science University, Cancer Early Detection and Research (CEDAR) Seminar, Portland, OR | August 15, 2023)
• The mind of the body: cognition and diverse intelligence in non-neural cellular collectives (34 minutes) (2023 Science of Consciousness Conference, Taormina, Sicily | May 26, 2023)
• From Matter to Mind: Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, and the Future of Regenerative Medicine (1 hour 17 minutes) (Harvard Extension Student Psychological Society Seminar, Cambridge, MA | May 18, 2023)
• From molecular physiology to anatomical form: Michael Levin and Wayne Frasch (1 hour 3 minutes) (The Guy Foundation research programme: presentation of initial findings, 2023 Spring Series | May 10, 2023)
• The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Nature (2 hours 29 minutes) (Pari Center Online Seminar: Incredible Minds, Pari, Italy | Apr. 29, 2023)
• Xenobots, AI and You: Ubiquitous Unconventional, Multiscale, Diverse Intelligence of Biology (30 minutes) (MorphoTalks - The Seminar Series on Morphological Computation and Beyond, University of Bristol, UK | Apr. 19, 2023)
• The Multiscale Competency of Biology: Cancer, Cellular Collective Intelligence, and Biorobotics (45 minutes) (6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023), Singapore | Apr. 6, 2023)
• Engineering with agential materials: from evolution to biological robotics (1 hour) (Engineering Life Initiative Seminar, Munich, Germany | Feb. 16, 2023)
• Beyond the Brain: Multiscale Diverse Intelligence as Biological Inspiration for AI (1 hour 4 minutes) (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Workshop at 2023 Conference, Washington, DC | Feb. 14, 2023)
• The collective intelligence of cells during morphogenesis as a model for cognition beyond the brain (1 hour 7 minutes) (Mind, Technology, and Society (MTS) talk series, University of California Merced | Jan. 23, 2023)
• From physics to mind: the journey of cognition seen through the lens of embryonic development  (28 minutes) (Life Perceives Symposium, University of Sussex | Jan. 20, 2023)
• Bioelectric networks underlie the intelligence of the body: from evolution of cognition to electroceuticals for regenerative medicine  (1 hour 3 minutes) (Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India | Jan. 18, 2023)
• Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional biological, engineered, and hybrid agents (1 hour 20 minutes) (Mind-Machine Conference, University of Calicut, Kerala, India | Jan. 18, 2023)
• Diverse Intelligence: unconventional minds and plastic bodies as new inspiration for GAI (40 minutes) (Intel Labs, discussion on Generalist AI beyond Deep Learning | Jan. 11, 2023)

2022

• Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells: bioelectrical navigation of anatomical morphospace (1 hour 14 minutes) (School of Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire | Nov. 2, 2022)
• What do bodies think about? (38 minutes) (Royal Society of Biology | Oct. 5, 2022)
• Neuroscience outside the nervous system: bioelectric basis of basal cognition in morphogenesis (45 minutes) (Third International Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience | Sep.24, 2022)
• Intelligence Beyond the Brain: morphogenesis as an example of the scaling of basal cognition (1 hour 53 minutes) (Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Summer Research Fellowship Speaker Series | Jul.13, 2022)
• Evolutionary Scaling of Intelligence via Bioelectrical Circuits (31 minutes) (First Blue Sky Thinking Workshop: The arrow of time, University of Surrey | Jul.7, 2022)
• Endogenous bioelectric controls of growth and form: from basic mechanisms to electroceuticals (21 minutes) (TERMIS 2022, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society European Chapter Conference | Jul. 1, 2022)
• Creativity Outside the Brain: cellular collective intelligence (20 minutes) (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talk “Beyond Spontaneous Generation” | Jun. 7, 2022)
• Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces (2 hours 4 minutes) (Plenary Session: Spacious Spatiality 2022, Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research | May 24, 2022)
• From Engineered Organs to Living Replicating Robots (23 minutes) (Inaugural Wyss Visionary Solutions Summit, | May 20, 2022)
• The Electric Life of Cancer: Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer (1 hour 8 minutes) (Cancer and Evolution Discussion Series, Arizona Cancer Evolution Center | Mar. 18, 2022)
• Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells (1 hour 28 minutes) (Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Sydney | Mar. 3, 2022)
• ICLR 2022 Workshop: From Cells to Societies: A conversation with Dr. Michael Levin (56 minutes) (Good AI | Feb. 23, 2022)
• Plasticity without genetic change: bioelectric embryos & synthetic proto-organisms (29 minutes) (IPAM conference on Collective Intelligence, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics | Feb. 17, 2022)
• Webinar on regenerative medicine with Prime Movers Lab (58 minutes) (Prime Movers Lab | Feb. 16, 2022)
• TAME: Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (1 hour 19 minutes) (Workshop on the origins of goal directedness, Centre Leo Apostel, of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Feb. 14, 2022)

2021

• BBI International Webinar Series - Professor Michael Levin (1 hour 9 minutes) (Bristol BioDesign Institute | Dec. 9, 2021)
• Xenobots 3.0: Living Robots That Can Reproduce (1 hour) (Wyss Institute webinar | Dec. 1, 2021)
• Basal cognition outside the brain - the future of regenerative medicine, AI, and synthetic living machines (1 hour 6 minutes) (Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecture, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Nov. 17, 2021)
• UCF Center for Ethics, "Synthetic Living Organisms: Heralds of a Revolution in Technology & Ethics" (1 hour 16 minutes) (UCF College of Arts & Humanities | Nov. 2, 2021)
• Ellison Institute Insights Forum panel discussion: information and cancer (2 hours 13 minutes) (Ellison Institute | Oct. 21, 2021)
• What really are brains anyway? Anatomical Homeostasis, Non-Neural Bioelectricity and Synthetic Organisms as New Windows on Basal Cognition (1 hour 12 minutes) (4th Annual Virtual Miniature Brain Machinery Retreat| Oct. 11, 2021)
• Michael Levin: Bioelectric Networks Instruct Growth and Form: from pre-neural circuits to electroceuticals (1 hour 12 minutes) (University of Manchester Podcast | Oct. 8, 2021)
• Basal cognition and Artificial Intelligence (1 hour 4 minutes) (Michael Levin | Sep. 28, 2021)
• Bioelectrics of cancer (45 minutes) (Michael Levin | Sep. 17, 2021)
• Bioelectric networks: Taming the collective intelligence of cells for regenerative medicine (1 hour 10 minutes) (Foresight Institute lecture | Aug. 17, 2021)
• Michael Levin: Discussion of basal cognition framework - "The Computational Boundary of a Self" (1 hour 56 minutes) (ActInfLab Livestream #025.2 | Jul. 13, 2021)
• Computationally Designed Organisms With Josh Bongard & Michael Levin (1 hour) (IEEE Soft Robotics Podcast | May 22, 2021)
• Dr. Michael Levin: Reading and Writing the Bio-Electric Morphogenetic Code (54 minutes) (Progress, Potential, and Possibilities | Feb. 4, 2021)

2020

• Michael Levin - Can Organismal Pattern Homeostasis Suppress Cancer? (19 minutes) (Cancer & Evolution Symposium | Oct. 16, 2020)
• Why don't (today's) Robots get Cancer? Multi-scale goal-directedness in biology as inspiration for robotics and artificial life (1 hour 4 minutes) (Keynote, Artificial Life 2020 Conference | Aug. 14, 2020)
• Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life (19 minutes) (TED Talks | June 2020)
• Endogenous Bioelectric Networks & Regenerative Medicine (1 hour 8 minutes) (Osher Center for Integrative Medicine - Grand Rounds | Feb. 11, 2020)

2019

• Taming Decision-Making by Cells and Organs: New Vistas for Regenerative Medicine and Artificial Intelligence (50 minutes) (Keynote address at Tufts University's Parents and Family Weekend | October 25-26, 2019)
• Endogenous bioelectric networks enable cell cooperation toward building anatomies (1 hour 5 minutes) (CHArT Talks, Broad Institute |Jul. 8, 2019)

2018

• What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System (52 minutes) (NeurIPS 2018, Montréal, Québec, Canada | Dec. 5, 2018)

2017

• Bioelectric Regulation of Regeneration (1 hour 30 minutes) (Interview with Dr. Michael Levin | 2017)
• Allen Frontiers Symposium (2017): 'Reading and Writing the Morphogenetic Code' (41 minutes) (Nov. 3, 2017)
• The Biology Revolution: A Computational Perspective (40 minutes) (Oct. 17, 2017)

2016

• 30-minute presentation on bioelectrics in cancer (21 minutes) (2016)

2013

• Bioelectricity in cancer (27 minutes) (2013)

2012

• 'Science for the Public' interview (53 minutes) (Feb. 21, 2012)

2011

• Endogenous bioelectrical signals in development, regeneration, and neoplasm; in Topical Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London. (55 minutes) (Levin, M. | Feb. 23, 2011)
• Left-Right Asymmetry in Embryonic Development: How epigenetic, biophysical forces and gene activity interplay to determine a major embryonic axis; in Topical Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London. (59 minutes) (Levin, M. | Feb. 23, 2011)