Episode Notes

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep486-scSee below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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EPISODE LINKS:Michael Levin’s X: https://x.com/drmichaellevinMichael Levin’s Website: https://drmichaellevin.orgMichael 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/38636560/– TAME: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346– Synthetic Living Machines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571

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OUTLINE:(00:00) – Introduction(00:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections(10:09) – Biological intelligence(18:42) – Living vs non-living organisms(23:55) – Origin of life(27:40) – The search for alien life (on Earth)(1:00:44) – Creating life in the lab – Xenobots and Anthrobots(1:13:46) – Memories and ideas are living organisms(1:27:26) – Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality(2:13:13) – Unexpected Intelligence in sorting algorithms(2:38:51) – Can aging be reversed?(2:42:41) – Mind uploading(3:01:22) – Alien intelligence(3:16:17) – Advice for young people(3:22:46) – Questions for AGI