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SUMMARY:Incredible Minds
DESCRIPTION:Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual\, Virtual\, and Possible Minds Across Living Matter \n\n\n\nwith Paco Calvo\, Lars Chittka\, Audrey Dussutour\, Michael Levin\, Julia Mossbridge\, Matthew Segall \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nApril 22 – May 7\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities\, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin\, or not\, to ours. And\, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies\, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development\, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds\, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds\, a sister group to fungi and animals\, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What\, if anything\, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology\, and no less scientifically compatible\, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus\, at the end of the day\, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural\, and even more incredible\, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday April 22Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plantswith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSunday April 23The Mind of a Beewith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Naturewith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSunday April 30Human Thinking and Human Beingwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSaturday May 6The Use of Slime Molds in Promoting Science for and by the Peoplewith Dr. Audrey Dussutour \n\n\n\nSunday May 7Mind and Life in the Cosmoswith Dr. Matthew David Segall
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SUMMARY:The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Nature
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Fm7jLNrpg\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nEach of us takes a remarkable journey from physics to mind: we start as a blob of chemicals in an unfertilized quiescent oocyte and becomes a complex\, metacognitive human being. The continuous process of transformation and emergence that we see in developmental biology reminds us that we are true collective intelligences – composed of cells which used to be individual organisms themselves. In this talk\, I will describe our work on understanding how the competencies of single cells are harnessed to solve problems in anatomical space\, and how evolution pivoted this scaling of intelligence into the familiar forms of cognition in the nervous system. We will talk about diverse intelligence in novel embodiments\, the scaling of the cognitive light cone of all beings\, and the role of developmental bioelectricity as a cognitive glue and as the interface by which mind controls matter in the body. I will also show a new synthetic life form\, and discuss what it means for bioengineering and ethics of human relationships to the wider world of possible beings. We will discuss the implications of these ideas for understanding evolution\, and the applications we have developed in birth defects\, cancer\, and traumatic injury repair. By merging deep ideas from developmental biophysics\, computer science\, and cognitive science\, we not only get a new perspective on fundamental questions of life and mind\, but also new roadmaps in regenerative medicine\, biorobotics\, and AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Levin received dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and biology\, followed by a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard.  He did his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School\, and started his independent lab in 2000. He is currently the Vannevar Bush chair at Tufts University\, and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard. He serves as the founding director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. His lab uses a mix of developmental biophysics\, computer science\, and behavior science to understand the emergence of mind in unconventional embodiments at all scales\, and to develop interventions in regenerative medicine and applications in synthetic bioengineering. They can be found at www.drmichaellevin.org/
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