“Biological robots,” or biobots, built in synthetic biologist Michael Levin’s laboratory, challenge materialist orthodoxy. Levin, who directs the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, creates these new lifeforms to regenerate bodies damaged by disease. In so doing, he is testing the limits of the standard story in biology, that we can explain living organisms solely in terms of genetics and environment.

He and his team claim to be discovering evidence that these organisms are interfaces between the physical world and a non-physical world of mathematical patterns and minds. Levin’s radical view is that only by shifting from physicalist to dualist metaphysics can biology understand how life works.

Join us for this exclusive live interview with Professor Levin, where we’ll discuss his extraordinary claims and discover why he thinks materialism is holding biology back.