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Michael Levin
FollowMichael Levin is a pioneering biologist whose work is reshaping our understanding of life, intelligence, and the very fabric of biological form. As Professor of Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Levin investigates how cells communicate and cooperate through bioelectrical signals to build and repair complex bodies.
His research on regeneration, morphogenesis, and synthetic living systems, including the creation of programmable “biobots”, blurs the boundaries between biology, computation, and cognition. In exploring how intelligence might emerge from collective cellular decision-making, Levin invites us to reconsider what it means to be alive, to have a mind, and to act creatively in the world.
Levin’s early work on left-right asymmetry of embryonic bodies was chosen by the journal Nature as a “Milestone in Developmental Biology in the last century.
Michael Levin is a pioneering biologist whose work is reshaping our understanding of life, intelligence, and the very fabric of biological form. As Professor of Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Levin investigates how cells communicate and cooperate through bioelectrical signals to build and repair complex bodies.
His research on regeneration, morphogenesis, and synthetic living systems, including the creation of programmable “biobots”, blurs the boundaries between biology, computation, and cognition. In exploring how intelligence might emerge from collective cellular decision-making, Levin invites us to reconsider what it means to be alive, to have a mind, and to act creatively in the world.
Levin’s early work on left-right asymmetry of embryonic bodies was chosen by the journal Nature as a “Milestone in Developmental Biology in the last century.
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Spacetime and the Structure of Reality
Is Time Travel Just a Fantasy?
Gravity minus dark matter
Missing Evidence
Is nothing an illusion?
Gravity
The end of the theory of everything
Time, Space and Being
Why there is something rather than nothing
The Laws of the Universe
Back from the End of Time
Cosmic Dreams
Why the world exists
Big Bang creation myths
The End of All Things
Is Reality an Illusion?
The Dark Universe
Why Does Time Fly?
Quantum Whispers
Decoding the Universe
The Poetry of the Universe
Playing Dice With The Universe
When Time Stands Still
How to Find a Multiverse
Time's arrow
Bang goes the Big Bang
The Next Universe
After the Higgs Boson
The Universe Code
Into the Unknown
Unnatural laws
The Stuff of the Universe
Bang Goes Another Theory of the Universe
The Theory of Everything
It's an Immaterial World
Pythagoras' Dream
Beyond the Standard Model
Something and nothing
Life, the Universe and Everything
In a parallel universe
A Goldilocks World
The Mathematics of Thought
It's an Immaterial World
Wonders of the Big Bang
Uncovering Reality
Masters of the World
Stephen Hawking and the Progress of Physics
Conjuring the Universe
Quantum Effects in Gravity
Demons Among Us
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Dethroning Consciousness
Are You an Illusion?
Consciousness, Actually
Friston vs Brogaard: Down the Rabbit Hole - part 1
Friston vs Brogaard: Down the Rabbit Hole - part 2
Reality Bites
In Search of Ourselves
The Iron Cage of Reason
Intuition vs Reason
Issue 54: The Limits of Reason
The Future of Moral Enhancement
The Secrets of Experience
Cyberspace and the Self
Smoke and Mirror Neurons
The Minds of Strangers
Issue 57: Knowing Others and Knowing Our Selves
The riddle of the self
Who Is Rachael? Blade Runner and Personal Identity
The Being of Replicants
Authenticity and Modernity
Issue 60: Authenticity, Reality and Being
On being a stoic at Christmas
Existentialism is a Humanism – but not in Erdogan's Turkey
The Last Jedi and the Problem of Free Will
Why There Is No Self: A Buddhist View for the West
Maeve’s Dilemma in Westworld
To Be, Or Not To Be: Can Animals Commit Suicide?
Can We Reinvent Ourselves? An Existentialist View
Why The Mind Is Not the Brain
Can Cats Read Minds?