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

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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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*EPISODE LINKS:*

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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