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Thoughts as Thinkers: biology & computer science of inspiration within & without us by Michael Levin

October 31, 2026 · 35 min

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This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology and computer science of inspiration within and without us" that I gave right before Chris Fields, at a recent philosophy conference. Still working on different ways to present the concept of patterns as behavioral policies, their origin, and applications of this idea.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Policies of navigation

(04:40) Biological free lunches

(10:15) Molecular learning ratchets

(14:00) Competencies of xenobots

(20:48) Latent space of patterns

(27:12) Embodied mathematical minds

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