Presentations

Audio & Video Interviews

2024

"Semiotics agents: evolving/learning autonomous and goal-directed entities" (55 minutes) (Alexei A. Sharov | October 28, 2024)
Biology's Functional Networks, NOT Genes, are key for Longevity (1 hour 8 minutes) (Live Longer World | October 11, 2024)
On Memory as a Self-Adapting Agent (1 hour 4 minutes) (Carlos Farias | October 7, 2024)
Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains (1 hour 4 minutes) (Machine Learning Street Talk | September 9, 2024)
Michael Levin & Mustafa | Bioelectricity and Cancer (1 hour) (Live Longer World | September 6, 2024)
The Co-Revolution of AI & Biology with Prof Michael Levin & Dr.Leo Pio Lopez (1 hour 13 minutes) (Convergent Evolution | September 4, 2024)
Levin vs Vervaeke: Unraveling Meaning, Intelligence, and AI (49 minutes) (Jake Newfield Podcast | September 5, 2024)
Why am I symmetrical? (32 minutes) (Crowd Science | August 9, 2024)
14th Season Opener: Michael Levin on ‘The New Biology’ (52 minutes) (Mendelspod | August 22, 2024)
The Orthogonal Bet: Understanding Embodied Intelligence (44 minutes) (Riskgaming Podcast | August 5, 2024)
What is Synthbiosis? AI as a Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future (1 hour 26 minutes) (Tevin Naidu | June 24, 2024)
Michael Levin & Ken Robinson | Bioelectricity in the era of the Genetic Code (1 hour 2 minutes) (Live Longer World | June 10, 2024)
Michael Levin: Consciousness, Cognition, Biology, Emergence (2 hours 18 minutes) (Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | June 5, 2024)
It's intelligence all the way down: How cells, tissues and organs have their own smarts (16 minutes) (Quirks & Quarks Podcast | May 23, 2024)
Humans Can Regenerate Limbs with Collective Intelligence | Michael Levin (46 minutes) (For the Sake of Argument Podcast | May 22, 2024)
Professor Mike Levin interviewed by Matt Gray (1 hour 1 minutes) (Cheltenham & UK Philosophers | May 1, 2024)
Memory Engrams, DNA, Evolution, Platonic Realms - Michael Levin (33 minutes) (Jack Roycroft-Sherry Podcast | April 29, 2024)
Michael Levin & Min Zhao | Bioelectricity in Wound Repair (57 minutes) (Live Longer World | April 25, 2024)
Synthetic Life: A future of 'Natural History'? (50 minutes) (Talking Culture Podcast | April 25, 2024)
After Babel: Talking to Aliens & the Mathematics of Communication (1 hour 50 minutes) (Cross Labs AI | April 21, 2024)
Rethinking Biology: A Conversation With Michael Levin (42 minutes) (The Future of Being Human | April 17, 2024)
Reductionism is well-named. It reduces what you can do. - Michael Levin (1 hour 17 minutes)(Sentientism Podcast | April 17, 2024)
Diverse Intelligences Surprises with Dr. Frans de Waal & Dr. Michael Levin (30 minutes) (Stories of Impact Podcast | April 17, 2024)
Michael Levin - Selfhood, Collective Intelligence, Cancer, AI, Ethics (1 hour) (Mystics and Muons Podcast | April 8, 2024)
Michael Levin & Franz Kuchling - Morphogenesis, Selfhood, Teleonomy (1 hour 17 minutes) (Active Inference Institute | March 14, 2024)
Gregg Henriques, John Vervaeke, and Michael Levin (1 hour 22 minutes) (Idea Cast Podcast | March 8, 2024)
Novel beings, novel goals: evolution & engineering of the agential material of life (56 minutes) (John Templeton Foundation Speaker Series | March 8, 2024)
Michael Levin & Bernardo Kastrup, part 3 - With Reality in Mind (2 hour 2 minutes) (Adventures in Awareness | March 3, 2024)
Dr. Michael Levin on Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents (1 hour 22 minutes) (The Cognitive Revolution Podcast | February 9, 2024)
The intelligence of life with Michael Levin (1 hour 34 minutes) (Living Mirrors Podcast | January 30, 2024)
Michael Levin & Bernardo Kastrup, part 2 - With Reality in Mind (1 hour 40 minutes) (Adventures in Awareness | January 24, 2024)
Michael Levin: Introducing Anthrobots and Hyper-Embryos (1 hour 35 minutes) (Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | January 17, 2024)
The Surprises of Diverse Intelligences (11 minutes) (Templeton World Charity Foundation | January 9, 2024)
The Universe Inside- Intelligence from Cells to Galaxies (2 hours 7 minutes) (The DemystifySci Podcast | January 7, 2024)
The Frontiers of Regenerative Medicine: From Frog Embryos to Human Limb Regeneration (32 minutes) (Templeton Ideas Podcast | January 4, 2024)

2023

The New Era of Cognitive Biorobotics (1 hour 21 minutes) (Robinson's Podcast | December 27, 2023)
Could "Anthrobots" be the future of regenerative medicine? Tufts researchers say yes (12 minutes) (WBZ interview with Nicole Davis | December 16, 2023)
Scientists create tiny biological robot "healers" assembled from human cells (47 minutes) (Newswise Live | November 28, 2023)
Michael Levin & Bernardo Kastrup in conversation, part 1 (1 hour 38 minutes) (Adventures in Awareness | November 25, 2023)
Michael Levin & Adam Goldstein: Intelligence and its Many Scales (57 minutes) (The Gradient Podcast with Daniel Bashir | November 2, 2023)
Michael Levin in Conversation With Bernardo Kastrup (1 hour 5 minutes) (Idea Cast Interview Series | October 13, 2023)
Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis (1 hour 33 minutes) (Robinson's Podcast | October 8, 2023)
Taming the Technological Dragon and Re-Minding the Universe- dialogue with Michael Levin (1 hour 13 minutes) (Footnotes2Plato Podcast | September 15, 2023)
Biohacking our way to health (8 minutes) (John Templeton Foundation and BigThink Inc., The Well | August 25, 2023)
Communicating New Ideas: Michael Levin (38 minutes) (Scientists not the Science | August 23, 2023)
What is The Field of Diverse Intelligence? Hacking the Spectrum of Mind & Matter (1 hour 56 minutes) (Mind-Body Focus with Tevin Naidu | August 19, 2023)
Can Cells Think? Hidden Intelligence (8 minutes) (John Templeton Foundation and BigThink Inc., The Well | July 31, 2023)
Discussing 3 Recently Published Papers with Michael Levin (1 hour 25 minutes) (Podcast: The Truth with Carlos Farias | July 3, 2023)
Boundaries of Intelligence (56 minutes) (Podcast: Punching Cards | June 27, 2023)
Can Artificial Systems Be Sentient? (53 minutes) (Podcast: Soft Robotics Podcast | May 28, 2023)
Synthetic biology and exotic forms of life (1 hour 32 minutes) (Podcast: Paradigm | May 22, 2023)
Polycomputing: Agency, Attractors & Observer-Dependent Computation in Biology and Beyond (1 hour 21 minutes) (Interview: The Truth with Carlos Farias | May 11, 2023)
Building Bodhisattvas: A Workshop (1 hour 8 minutes)(Cross Labs & The Center for the Study of Apparent Selves | May 9, 2023)
Powering the complexity of life: Nick Lane and Michael Levin (1 hour 59 minutes) (Podcast: Reason with Science | May 7, 2023)
Will & Meaning in Living Beings (1 hour 50 minutes) (Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast | Apr. 30, 2023)
How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs, with Michael Levin (29 minutes) (Podcast: Big Brains | Apr. 27, 2023)
Michael Levin: Xenobots, Limb Regeneration, and The Power of Cellular Communication (1 hour 52 minutes) (Podcast: Smarter Not Harder | Apr. 18, 2023)
The Fascinating World of Biology with Michael Levin (1 hour 28 minutes) (Podcast: Brain We Are | Apr. 6, 2023)
Electricity of Life: Wonders of Bioelectricity and Regenerative Biology Prof Michael Levin (1 hour 32 minutes) (Podcast: Dr. Roi Yozevitch | Apr. 3, 2023)
Michael Levin: The Computational Boundary of a 'Self' (1 hour 20 minutes)(Interview: The Truth with Carlos Farias | Apr. 1, 2023)
Michael Levin TAMES Life (1 hour 3 minutes) (Podcast: Computing Up | Mar. 5, 2023)
Prof. Michael Levin, Prof. Irina Rish - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism (55 minutes) (Machine Learning Street Talk | Feb. 10, 2023)
Conscious Agents vs Cognitive Agents with Donald Hoffman and Michael Levin (2 hours 3 minutes) (Philosophy Babble | Feb. 2, 2023)
Animal Regeneration, Learning, & Memory (55 minutes) (Podcast: Nature & Nurture | Jan. 21, 2023)
What are Xenobots, the world's first living and self-reproducing robot? Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. Josh Bongard (54 minutes)(Podcast: DG Early-Morning Show | Jan. 3, 2023)

2022

The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis - Michael Levin & Joscha Bach (1 hour 56 minutes) (Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | Nov. 9, 2022)
Engineering Life and Consciousness (1 hour 20 minutes)(Escaped Sapiens Podcast | Oct. 17, 2022)
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots (3 hours) (Lex Fridman Podcast | Oct. 1, 2022)
Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition (1 hour 10 minutes) (Podcast: Thing in Itself with Ashar Khan | Oct. 1, 2022)
Can Cells Think? The Magic of Developmental Biology (20 minutes) (John Templeton Foundation | Aug. 9, 2022)
Michael Levin | Karl Friston | Chris Fields on The Meta Hard Problem, Consciousness, and Babbling (1 hour 55 minutes) (Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | Jun. 30, 2022)
Mark Solms and Michael Levin on the Attempt to Build and Test an Artificial Consciousness (1 hour) (Podcast: The Meaning Code | Jul. 29, 2022)
Mark Solms and Michael Levin discuss Consciousness, Cognition and Opponent Processing (1 hour 43 minutes) (Podcast: The Meaning Code | Jun. 24, 2022)
Developmental and Synthetic Biology, featuring Dr. Michael Levin (38 minutes) (Podcast: Stem Cell Podcast | Jun. 14, 2022)
Dr. Michael Levin on Cellular Cooperation and Cognition (1 hour 10 minutes) (Podcast: The Rational View | Jun. 11, 2022)
A Theory of Everything: Michael Levin on Multi-Scale Intelligence and Teleophobia (1 hour) (Interview: European Institute of Science in Management | May 31, 2022)
Collective intelligence of cells | Michael Levin (1 hour 22 minutes) (Podcast: Reason with Science with Jitender Dublad | May 26, 2022)
The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman (1 hour 16 minutes) (Podcast: Evolution 2.0 | May 9, 2022)
Scaling Selfhood: Collective Intelligence from Cells to Economies (1 hour 56 minutes) (Podcast: The Musing Mind | May 2, 2022)
Hacking the Blueprint of Life | Michael Levin (1 hour 34 minutes) (Podcast: Escaped Sapiens | May 2, 2022)
Regeneration, Intelligence in Life & Memory - Dr. Michael Levin (1 hour 31 minutes) (Interview: The Sheekey Science Show | Apr. 30, 2022)
Can Bioelectrical Signals Reverse Aging? | Dr. Michael Levin (1 hour) (Podcast: Live Longer World | Apr. 19, 2022)
Athena Akiptis and Michael Levin | Cancer, Cheating, and Cell Communication (1 hour 36 minutes) (Podcast: Science of the Noosphere with David Sloan Wilson | Apr. 18, 2022)
A Conversation with Michael Levin (56 minutes) (Good AI | Mar. 4, 2022)
Josh Bongard & Michael Levin: "Self Replicating Living Robots" (1 hour 4 minutes) (Podcast: Soft Robotics Podcast | Mar. 9, 2022)
A New Class of Robots (27 minutes) (Podcast: Innovation Uncovered | Mar. 2, 2022)
Michael Levin, PhD: Limb Regeneration, Bioelectricity, and Why Neurons Aren't Special (1 hour 18 minutes) (The External Medicine Podcast | Feb. 24, 2022)
Regenerating limbs and electroceuticals (1 hour 23 minutes) (The Vance Crowe Podcast, Feb. 21, 2022)
Will This Revolutionize Biology? An interview with Michael Levin (Andrew Van Wagner, Substack | Feb. 2, 2022)
Bioelectrics with Michael Levin (Wyss Institute, BIOS Frontier Science | Jan. 19, 2022)
Xenobots (1 hour 2 minutes) (Podcast: The Other Animals | Jan. 15, 2022)
Bioelectric Networks & Cellular Motivations (1 hour 34 minutes) (Podcast: Demystifying Science | Jan. 10, 2022)

2021

Episode 24: Michael Levin (2 hours 15 minutes)(Podcast: Cassettes | Dec. 6, 2021)
Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots (1 hour 49 minutes)(Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | Nov. 17, 2021)
Michael Levin: Where does cognition come from (1 hour 14 minutes)(The Vance Crowe Podcast | Nov. 8, 2021)
Episode 17: Michael Levin (2 hours 8 minutes) (Podcast: Cassettes | Sep. 20, 2021)
Mind Everywhere (1 hour 3 minutes) (Podcast: Many Minds | Jul. 21, 2021)
Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (1 hour 8 minutes) (Podcast: Big Biology | Jun. 3, 2021)
Our Body is a Collection of Intelligent Organisms (1 hour 20 minutes) (Podcast: Bold Conjectures with Paras Chopra | May 25, 2021)
Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self (1 hour 22 minutes) (Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast | Feb. 1, 2021)

2020

The Future of Regeneration, Biology, and Anatomical Compilers (42 minutes) (Podcast: Build the Future | Dec. 2020)
The Software of Cell Signaling: Michael Levin Researches How Cells Build Anatomies (56 minutes) (Podcast: Finding Genius | Nov. 17, 2020)
Bio-Electricity For Regeneration and Cancer Control (1 hour 22 minutes) (Podcast and video: ideaXme | Jul. 22, 2020)
iHeartRadio | ideaXme | YouTube
American Institute of Physics, Oral History Interview (American Institute of Physics (AIP) | Jun. 20, 2020)
Picasso Tadpoles: Michael Levin on the 'Dark Matter' of Biology (53 minutes) (Podcast: Evolution 2.0 | Apr. 10, 2020)
Bioelectric Computation (1 hour 9 minutes) (Podcast: Big Biology | Apr. 2, 2020)
Xenobots: AI Enabled First Living Robots (27 minutes) (Podcast: Science Rehashed | Mar. 4, 2020)
'Xenobot' Soft Robotics With Michael Levin (1 hour 2 minutes) (Soft Robotics Podcast | Feb. 20, 2020)

2019

Inspiring New Machine Learning Platforms with Bioelectric Computation with Michael Levin (25 minutes) (Podcast: TWiML & AI | Jul. 15, 2019)

2018

Dr. Michael Levin: Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms Cells Use to Communicate During Development and Regeneration (46 minutes) (People Behind the Science | Aug. 13, 2018)

2017

Hacking our cells to grow new limbs (30 minutes) (Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea | Jan. 07, 2017)