Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Starter Pack: introductory materials to my labβs academic work
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Published by Mike Levin on November 16, 2023
People sometimes ask for a kind of introductory starter pack of information to get into the things that my lab and I work on. Here are some ways to begin to get acquainted with the research. Black is reading material, green are videos.
First, more generally-accessible material:
- Levin, M., and Dennett, D. C. (2020), How to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas, Aeon Essays
- Levin, M., and Yuste, R. (2022), Modular cognition, Aeon Essays
- Finkelstein J., McLaughlin K., and Levin M. (2019), Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis, The Scientist, December 2019
- Levin, M. (2020), How Groups of Cells Cooperate to Build Organs and Organisms, The Scientist, 34(9): 38-45
- TED Talk: Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life
For the more detailed academic work:
(1) Diverse intelligence, philosophy of mind, unconventional cognition, artificial life, robotics
- Levin, M. (2019), The Computational Boundary of a βSelfβ: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2688
- Levin, M. (2022), Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16: 768201
- BaluΕ‘ka, F., and Levin, M. (2016), On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems, Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 902
- The collective intelligence of cells during morphogenesis as a model for cognition beyond the brain (1 hour 7 minutes) (Mind, Technology, and Society (MTS) talk series, University of California Merced | Jan. 23, 2023)
(2) Biomedicine, bioelectricity, regeneration, cancer
- Lagasse, E., and Levin, M. (2023), Future Medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body, Trends in Molecular Medicine, 29(9): 687-710
- Levin, M. (2021), Bioelectric Signaling: Reprogrammable Circuits Underlying Embryogenesis, Regeneration, and Cancer, Cell, 184(8): 1971-1989
- Levin, M. (2023), Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind, Animal Cognition
- Levin, M. (2021), Bioelectrical approaches to cancer as a problem of the scaling of the cellular self, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 165: 102-113
- Bioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative Medicine (1 hour 1 minute) (Lowell General Hospital, Presenting Grand Rounds, Lowell, MA | September 27, 2023)
(3) Evolution, developmental biology, biophysics, synthetic biology
- Levin, M. (2023), Darwinβs agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 80: 142
- Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2023), Thereβs Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-Scale Machines, Biomimetics, 8(1): 110
- Davies, J., and Levin, M. (2023), Synthetic morphology with agential materials, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 1(1): 46-59
- Engineering with agential materials: from evolution to biological robotics (1 hour) (Engineering Life Initiative Seminar, Munich, Germany | Feb. 16, 2023)
More in-depth:
After that introductory material, you can see the entire thing here (dive in and donβt forget the links on the left side of each page, they lead to additional content).
- Overview of the research; all peer-reviewed work: chronologically, but here it is by topic β start with whatever area interests you.
- Talks Iβve given, and discussions with others and interviews, including a bunch of working meetings with really great people
Collaborators: