Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486

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/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:*
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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