Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup #2: Memory, Time, & Perception

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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0:00 Introduction
01:50 Michael’s question to Bernardo: Why did the universe dissociate?
08:00 Diversity requires boundaries. Could cosmic boredom be a factor?
12:20 The nature of memory and time: actively constructed or doorway through time?
21:00 how memory is encoded in biological systems, and “bi-stable” perceptions: Michael on memory and perception in morphological space -
32:10 Delocalised biology catches up with physics: this is how you change the world

Michael Levin on Rupert Sheldrake
37:20 A cure for cancer
40:20 Planaria prove success is what you do with what you have: immortality, regeneration,.
46:20 Implications: regenerate limbs, design your own body, understanding diverse intelligence
52:10 A summary of where Bernardo and Michael agree and disagree

How to determine the boundaries of conscious systems?
Everything has an inner perspectives, but what are the boundaries of the thing

A simulation is not the thing Richard Watson

1:06:20 How to delineate the boundaries of a system empirically
1:12:20 Your right hemisphere has opinions you have no idea about.
1:18:20 Why training something may determine it’s intelligence and boundaries
1:23:42 Bernardo: computer scientists don’t understand computers
1:27:52 What is the causal relationship between bioelectricity and morphogenesis?
Where is the information and patterns stored?
Where do the patterns come from? (It’s not just natural selection.)

Michael’s established work: https://drmichaellevin.org/
Michael’s more speculative work: https://thoughtforms.life/