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Thoughtforms LifeAgainst Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials by Michael LevinThis is a 1 hour 11 minute talk by me called "Against Mind-Blindness: recognizing and communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond". It is a slightly longer, updated version of this talk from last month, containing a bit of new material and a somewhat differently-ordered presentation.
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2025-09-021h 11
Thoughtforms LifePatterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence by Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour 15 minute talk titled "Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence: how Platonic Space in-forms evolved, engineered, and hybrid embodied minds", which is the kickoff talk for our Symposium on Platonic Space (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/). Here I go slowly step by step to review the data that motivates this unconventional way to look at biology, and then (at around minute 47) present a speculative model and a research program we are pursuing to t...
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2025-08-281h 13
Thoughtforms LifeUnconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: A Diverse Intelligence Research Program - Michael LevinThis is a ~46 minute talk given at a conference on consciousness, presenting my lab's data on cognition in body organs outside the brain and then some speculations about the mind-body connection more generally (fleshing out my Platonic space model with symmetries between brain:mind relationships and mathematics:physics relationships).
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2025-08-0646 min
Thoughtforms LifeAgainst Mind-blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Agential Materials and Beyond - Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour 7 minute talk I gave at the SEMF Interdisciplinary School (July 2025, https://semf.org.es/school2025/#speakers-container) on agency ways to think about expanding our ability to detect and communicate with unconventional minds. The same talk but with a lengthy Q&A will be up on the SEMF website.
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2025-07-221h 07
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Michael JohnsonThis is a ~55 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) covering topics of spectrum of consciousness down to the cell (and below) level, implicit memory and cellular pixels of experience, Platonic space, symmetry breaking, and intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation in systems.
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2025-07-0955 min
Thoughtforms LifeUnconventional Selves - a Diverse Intelligence Perspective on Consciousness by Michael Levin"Unconventional selves in novel spaces, scales, and embodiments - a diverse intelligence perspective on a continuum of cognition and consciousness" is a ~1 hour 12 min talk I gave at a conference on consciousness (https://www.hardproblem.it/), as it relates to our work on diverse intelligence and unconventional cognition.
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2025-07-071h 11
Health Innovation MattersAI for Optimizing Healthcare Operations with Michael Docktor Michael chats with Dr. Michael Docktor, pediatric gastroenterologist, digital health innovator, and CEO of Dock Health. Together, they discuss how AI is reshaping the operational fabric of healthcare. Docktor unpacks common myths about AI's role in clinical settings, explains how Dock powers the invisible but critical workflows between systems, and explores how human-led, AI-supported operations can reduce burnout, improve administrative processes like referrals, and unlock real ROI. He also shares why Dock isn't just another EHR plugin or project tracker—it's a productivity platform purpose-built for the complexity of care delivery.
2025-06-2730 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion between Adam Safron, Max Shen, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour discussion with Adam Safron (https://www.adamsafron.com/) and Max Shen (https://www.maxkshen.com/home), and Michael Levinabout diverse intelligence and its relevance for pain.
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2025-06-2659 min
Thoughtforms LifeEndogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An Interface to Somatic IntelligenceThis is a ~55 min talk by Michael Levin "Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: an interface to somatic intelligence for regenerative medicine", going over the state of the art in developmental bioelectricity in the context of collaborating with the cellular collective intelligence for applications in birth defects, regeneration, and cancer. It has some new material beyond what my recent talks on this topic have covered. CONNECT WITH ME:Podcast WebsiteYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyTwitterBlogThe Levin Lab
2025-06-2451 min
Thoughtforms LifeAgainst Mind-BlindnessThis is a new ~1 hour talk by me on the concept of diverse intelligence, and morphogenesis as a model system with which to practice identifying and communicating with unconventional minds. This is a bit different than previous ones because I explicitly go over examples of how some of our various data on bioelectrics addresses each of several key properties of cellular collectives as *cognitive agents* navigating anatomical morphospace. CONNECT WITH ME:Podcast WebsiteYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyTwitterBlogThe Levin Lab
2025-06-1656 min
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Regenerative MedicineThis is a ~50 minute talk by me (given at IIT Mandi yesterday) on bioelectricity from the perspective of both, a path to regenerative medicine of birth defects, injury repair, and cancer, and a model system for learning to communicate with unconventional collective intelligences. CONNECT WITH ME:Podcast WebsiteYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyTwitterBlogThe Levin Lab
2025-06-0650 min
Thoughtforms LifeAgainst Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating With Diverse IntelligencesThis is a ~35 minute talk about diverse intelligence and our efforts to establish formalisms and methods for communicating with unconventional biological intelligences. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Expanding Mind Blindness(02:50) Recognizing Diverse Minds(05:00) Embodied Agent Origins(08:40) Anatomical Intelligence Spaces(12:40) Bioelectricity: Body's Glue(15:50) Communicating Cell Intelligence(22:30) Patterns Beyond Physics(25:00) Anthrobots: Novel Life Forms(27:30) Future Beings, Pattern Space(32:30) Conclusion and ThanksCONNECT WITH ME:Podcast WebsiteYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyTwitterBlogThe Levin Lab
2025-05-1535 min
Thoughtforms LifeScaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and BeyondThis is a ~20 minute very rapid talk reviewing ideas around the scaling of intelligence in unconventional substrates. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intro & Unconventional Concepts(00:40) Challenging Traditional Worldviews(01:40) Life as Continua(03:00) Electromagnetic Spectrum Analogy(04:30) Spectrum of Mind Applications(05:50) Single Cell to Mind(07:10) Agential Material: Cell Competency(08:00) Intelligence Below Cells(09:00) Multiscale Competency Architecture(10:00) Anatomical Alignment Problem(12:30) Bioelectricity: Cognitive Glue(13:30) Scaling Goals: Light Cone(14:30) Salamander Regeneration Example(15:30) Tadpole Eye on Tail(17:00) Bioelectrical Interface Methods(18:00) Rewriting Body Memory(19:00) Frog Limb Regeneration(20:30) Plasticity: Novel O...
2025-05-1124 min
Thoughtforms LifeEthics and the New BiologyThis is a ~30 minute talk to an Ethics class (undergraduates) about aspects of our work that have implications for ethics. CHAPTERS:(00:00) Intelligence All The Way Down(06:30) Scaling Up Cognition(13:40) Communicating With Cellular Intelligence(20:00) Freedom of Embodiment(27:40) Ethics of Future BeingsCONNECT WITH ME:Podcast WebsiteYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyTwitterBlogThe Levin Lab
2025-04-2632 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Michael JohnsonThis is a ~50 minute conversation with Michael Johnson (https://t.co/YxAOZif0V2) on vasocomputation, stress as cognitive glue, and more generally computation and cognition in unconventional substrates.
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2025-04-1750 min
Thoughtforms LifeHow Does It Know? Bioelectricity as Memory Medium, Cognitive Glue, & Path to Regenerative MedicineThis is a ~1 hour talk on the field of developmental bioelectricity from a perspective of cognitive science and the homology between mechanisms of self-assembly of somatic and brain-based intelligence.
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2025-04-111h 00
Thoughtforms LifeLife, Mind, and Computing: A Diverse Intelligence PerspectiveThis is a very fast (~33min) flyover of some ideas relevant to the relationship between biology, computation, cognition, consciousness, and related subjects. This was given at the amazing Progress and Visions in Consciousness Science series (https://amcs-community.org/events/progress-visions-series/) as the prologue to a discussion.
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Talk Overview and Structure(01:30) Expanding Our View of Mind(04:30) Biology's Multi-Scale Architecture(09:00) Bioelectricity: Ancient Cognitive Glue(14:00) Biology Solves Novel Problems(22:00) Creative Interpretation, Intelligence Ratchet(29:30) Novel Goals, Platonic Space(36:00) Conclusion and Future Research
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2025-03-1333 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchristThis is an ~1 hour 10 minute conversation with Iain McGilchrist (https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/), on the topic of my recent paper on the Platonic Space (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5g2xj_v3) - forms ingressing into the physical world in biology, causation, evolution, and mind.
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2025-03-041h 11
Thoughtforms LifeConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchristThis is an ~1 hour 10 minute conversation with Iain McGilchrist (https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/), on the topic of my recent paper on the Platonic Space (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5g2xj_v3) - forms ingressing into the physical world in biology, causation, evolution, and mind.
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2025-03-041h 11
Thoughtforms LifeConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchristThis is an ~1 hour 10 minute conversation with Iain McGilchrist (https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/), on the topic of my recent paper on the Platonic Space (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5g2xj_v3) - forms ingressing into the physical world in biology, causation, evolution, and mind.
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2025-03-041h 11
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectric Networks: An Interface to Engineering with the Agential Material of LifeThis is a ~1 hour talk (given at the Departmental Seminar series at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences) on the use of a cognitive approach to bioengineering and regenerative medicine, in which morphogenesis is the behavior (in anatomical space) of a collective intelligence of cellular swarms. I describe our work that takes advantage of the bioelectric interface to re-specify the targets of morphogenesis.
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Agential Material for Bioengineering(02:00) The Anatomical Compiler Goal(04:00) Biology as Agential Material(06:00) Intelligence Below Cell Level(09:00) Anatomy Not Just DNA(12:00) Hardware vs Software Biology
2025-03-011h 02
THIRD EYE DROPSHidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matthew Segall | Mind Meld 424🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. Matthew Segall enter the mind meld! *Video Episode * Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University where he’s the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. His groundbreaking research on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cognition is reshaping our understanding of how living systems self-organize and regenerate. He explores how cells and tissues communicate through bioelectrical signals, guiding the formation of complex structures without relying solely on genetic instructions. Levin's work suggests that biological development is not purely mechanical but follows...
2025-02-202h 07
Thoughtforms LifeConversation 2 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-babcock), Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en), and I.
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2025-02-1759 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-babcock), Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en), and I.
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2025-02-1759 min
Thoughtforms LifeUnconventional Biology, Minimal Models of Intelligence, and Bio-Inspired ComputingThis is a 1 hour 10 minute presentation of ideas around the architecture of biology (and how it differs from today's computational systems). Focusing on morphogenesis as a model of collective intelligence, I talk about the intelligence ratchet that results from life's need to creatively interpret information on the cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary scale. I end with some speculative ideas about Platonic space and cognitive patterns therein, which radically enlarge the set of beings.
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CHAPTERS:(00:00) Introduction: Body, Mind Symmetry(05:00) Diverse Biological Intelligence Examples(12:50) Multi-Scale Competency Architecture(19:00) Collective Morphospace Intelligence(24:00) Bioelectric Communication Interface(29:30) Rewriting...
2025-01-301h 10
Thoughtforms LifeNeuroscience Beyond Neurons: How Somatic Bioelectricity Implements an Unconventional IntelligenceThis is a ~1 hr10min talk I gave at a conference on modeling aspects of neuroscience. The talk is about the inverse idea - how tools and concepts from neuroscience apply far beyond neurons and brains, and can help understand a lot of biology across development, evolution, and diverse intelligence. I talked about what the symmetry between cognitive science and the study of morphogenesis means for biomedicine and for some questions in behavioral/cognitive science.
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2025-01-181h 08
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, AI, causation, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-babcock), Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en), and I.
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2024-12-201h 01
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour talk with Aaron Sloman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sloman), Anthony Leggett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_James_Leggett), and Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/). The links to which Aaron refers are:
https://cogaffarchive.org/misc/whatlife.html
https://cogaffarchive.org/evol-devol.html
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2024-12-201h 04
Thoughtforms LifeConversation 1 Between Gunnar Babcock, Daniel McShea, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinThis is a ~1 hour conversation on topics of consciousness, AI, causation, affect, evolution, and philosophy between Gunnar Babcock (https://cals.cornell.edu/gunnar-babcock), Daniel McShea (https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea), Mark Solms (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en), and I.
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2024-12-201h 01
Thoughtforms LifeNovel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: Diverse Intelligence and the Study of ConsciousnessThis is a ~55 minute talk titled "Novel Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a diverse intelligence perspective on a continuum of cognition (and consciousness)" by Michael Levin given at the CIFAR (https://cifar.ca/next-generation/cifar-neuroscience-of-consciousness-winter-school/) Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, + about 20 min of Q&A. My lab doesn't normally work on consciousness per se, but we do a lot of things that are relevant to questions in the philosophy of mind so in this talk I ...
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Introduction and Talk Outline(03:00) Challenging Conventional Categories(06:00) Unusual Biology and Cell Journey(12:00) Collective Intelligence and Problem Spaces(19:00) Morphogenesis...
2024-12-191h 20
Thoughtforms LifeBernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - ConversationThis is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup (https://www.bernardokastrup.com/), Richatrd Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/), and me on topics at the intersection of physics, cognition, consciousness, etc.
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2024-12-151h 21
Thoughtforms LifeBernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - ConversationThis is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup (https://www.bernardokastrup.com/), Richatrd Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/), and me on topics at the intersection of physics, cognition, consciousness, etc.
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2024-12-151h 21
Thoughtforms LifeBernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, and Mike Levin - ConversationThis is a ~1 hour 20 minutes conversation between Bernardo Kastrup (https://www.bernardokastrup.com/), Richatrd Watson (https://www.richardawatson.com/), and me on topics at the intersection of physics, cognition, consciousness, etc.
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2024-12-151h 21
Thoughtforms LifeCollective Intelligence of the Body: The Multiscale Architecture of SelvesThis is a ~55 minute talk on the topic of the "Multiscale Human" (https://humanatlas.io/events/2024-24h/). I cover the topics of "what are we", "implications for biomedicine", and "future beyond human repair" from the perspectives of diverse intelligence at different scales of our bodies and at scales of evolution, development, and cognition.
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2024-12-1453 min
Thoughtforms LifeSelf-Constructing Bodies, Collective Minds: The Intersection of CS, Cognitive Bio, and PhilosophyThis is a 1 hour 12 minute talk presented at the 2nd Symposium on the Philosophy of Computing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It covers the ways in which biological computation is different from most of today's computer architectures, and concludes with a different way to think about emergence of cognition (not just complexity or unpredictability) in a way that informs how we think about biological and artificial intelligences.
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Biology, Computation, Philosophy(05:50) Unconventional Biological Problem Solving(13:50) Anatomical Morphospace Navigation(21:50) Reading Bioelectric Patterns(31:00) Biology vs. Computing(36:50) Multi-Scale Competency Architecture(45:00) Cr...
2024-11-281h 12
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter ResearchThis is a ~50 minute working meeting between Martin Hanczyc (https://www.martinhanczyc.com/) and Michael Levin, discussing work on autonomous droplets and more generally the field of active and agential matter (physical intelligence, somatic computation, etc.) and conceptual approaches in the field of diverse intelligence. Examples of Martin's work:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37166609
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985113
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525912
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2024-11-1948 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter ResearchThis is a ~50 minute working meeting between Martin Hanczyc (https://www.martinhanczyc.com/) and Michael Levin, discussing work on autonomous droplets and more generally the field of active and agential matter (physical intelligence, somatic computation, etc.) and conceptual approaches in the field of diverse intelligence. Examples of Martin's work:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37166609
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985113
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525912
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2024-11-1948 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Martin Hanczyc: Minimal Models of Cognition and Active Matter ResearchThis is a ~50 minute working meeting between Martin Hanczyc (https://www.martinhanczyc.com/) and Michael Levin, discussing work on autonomous droplets and more generally the field of active and agential matter (physical intelligence, somatic computation, etc.) and conceptual approaches in the field of diverse intelligence. Examples of Martin's work:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37166609
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985113
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525912
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2024-11-1948 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for BioengineeringThis is a ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin, given to the bioengineering department at Northeastern University, on the topic of using bioelectricity as an interface for engineering agential materials. Companion papers are:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-022-00001-9
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33826908
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2024-11-1554 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for BioengineeringThis is a ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin, given to the bioengineering department at Northeastern University, on the topic of using bioelectricity as an interface for engineering agential materials. Companion papers are:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-022-00001-9
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33826908
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2024-11-1554 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Joscha Bach, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinThis is an ~1 hour conversation with Joscha Bach (http://bach.ai/) and Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/), touching on computation, cognition, error correcting codes, physics, AI, consciousness, etc.
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2024-06-061h 01
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion on Mortal Computations with Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, and Chris FieldsThis is a 1-hour working meeting discussing Alexander Ororbia's and Karl Friston's paper on Mortal Computations and their relevance to our work in reprogramming biology and cognition more generally. A few papers:
Alexander and Karl's paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09589
Michael Levin's paper to which they referred a couple of times: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/4b2wj
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2024-05-2558 min
Thoughtforms LifeTom Froese and Michael Levin Discuss Tom's Irruption TheoryThis is a meeting discussion, ~40 minutes, between Tom Froese (Cognitive Scientist at OIST, https://groups.oist.jp/ecsu/tom-froese) and Michael Levin, going over Tom's recent paper on Irruption theory and discussing embodied minds, agency, and models of mind-body interaction. The paper is here: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/4/288
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2024-05-2446 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion with Michael Pollan of New Ideas on Memories and SelvesThis is a discussion meeting (~1 hour 20 minutes) between Michael Levin and Michael Pollan (https://michaelpollan.com/) of the new ideas in this paper: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/4b2wj
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2024-05-091h 18
Thoughtforms LifeBiorobotics: Engineering with Agential MaterialsThis is an ~1 hour talk by Michael Levin on the topic of engineering with agential (living) materials, given for the students and other members of the ETHZ Zurich Soft Robotics Lab led by Prof. Robert Katzschmann).
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Introduction: Biorobotics & Materials(02:20) The Anatomical Compiler(04:15) Agential Materials & Competency(07:00) Biological Plasticity Examples(11:50) Navigating Anatomical Space(15:00) Beyond Molecular Medicine(17:40) Intelligence in Development(21:00) Newt Tubule Plasticity(24:00) Picasso Tadpole Experiment(27:00) Pattern Homeostasis & Setpoints(29:40) Bioelectricity as Interface(32:00) Reading Electrical Patterns(34:00) Manipulating Bioelectric Info(35:40) Bioelectric Organ Triggers(38:30) Frog Leg Regeneration(40:00...
2024-05-0555 min
Education ExcellenceFrom Classroom to White House: Evolution of Sustainability in Denver with LeeAnn KittleNew Education Excellence host Michael Levin-Epstein chats with LeeAnn Kittle, Executive Director of Sustainability for Denver Public Schools. Together, they discuss LeeAnn's path to her current role, how she is driving innovation in sustainability at DPS, contributors—and barriers—to success in climate action in the district, how other districts can go about forging their own paths toward sustainability success, and much more. Music by Ruwin from Pixabay
2024-04-0935 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Discussion Between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and Mike LevinThis is a ~1 hour 20 minute working meeting conversation between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Justin McSweeny, and myself; we touch on topics of mind, Selfhood, Platonic spaces, and other ways in which the emerging science of Diverse Intelligence speaks to greater transpersonal issues.
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2024-03-161h 21
Thoughtforms LifeTimothy Jackson and Mike Levin, MeetingThis is a ~1 hour working meeting between Timothy Jackson (https://theconversation.com/profiles/timothy-n-w-jackson-115702) and myself, discussing our collaboration on how evolutionary and clinical toxinology connects to diverse intelligence and biomedical hacking.
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2024-02-2452 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for BioengineeringThis is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students.
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2024-02-2255 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for BioengineeringThis is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students.
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2024-02-2255 min
Thoughtforms LifeA Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for BioengineeringThis is a 1 hour talk by Michael Levin to an audience of biomedical engineering students.
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2024-02-2255 min
Business ChoreographyHow to Write Your Own Book to Use as a Marketing & Thought Leadership Tool with Michael LevinNew York Times bestselling author and ghostwriter Michael Levin is the most prolific ghostwriter in the industry, having written, edited, published, or consulted on more than 1,000 books. Levin’s own books have been published by Simon and Schuster, Random House, Penguin, and a variety of other top publishers. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, LA Times, Boston Globe, and many other top outlets. His ghostwriting clients include Boeing and Ford CEO Alan Mulally, baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar (he edited Zig’s last book), NFL legend Pat Summ...
2024-02-2030 min
Thoughtforms LifeKarl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and Michael Levin Discuss Active Inference and AlgorithmsThis is a 1-hour discussion meeting between Karl Friston, Adam Goldstein, and I talking about how Karl's active inference ideas apply to some work on unexpected behavior in sorting algorithms (https://thoughtforms.life/what-do-algorithms-want-a-new-paper-on-the-emergence-of-surprising-behavior-in-the-most-unexpected-places/).
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2024-02-0453 min
Thoughtforms LifeMark Solms and Michael Levin Discuss Explicit and Implicit Behavioral DrivesA 1-hour conversation about our algorithms data (https://thoughtforms.life/what-do-algorithms-want-a-new-paper-on-the-emergence-of-surprising-behavior-in-the-most-unexpected-places/) and how it relates to behavioral policies in minimal and not-so-minimal biological agents.
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2024-02-0354 min
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectricity, Biobots, and the Future of BiologyA 30-minute talk (from April 2023) by Michael Levin given to an audience interested in longevity and the future of biotechnology research.
CHAPTERS:(00:00) Introduction & Design Challenge(04:00) Genome vs. Anatomical Form(08:00) Inverse Problem & Top-Down(13:00) Cellular Collective Intelligence(17:00) Regeneration & Bioelectricity(22:00) Reading/Writing Bioelectrical Patterns(26:00) Permanent Morphological Changes(31:00) Cancer & Synthetic Life(35:00) AI, Ethics, Future
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2023-11-2530 min
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectricity as Cognitive Glue: From Diverse Intelligence to Regenerative Medicine (~1 hour talk)A talk by Michael Levin (with Q&A at the end) given at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Colloquium given in November 2023 (not May as the title screen says).
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2023-11-211h 16
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael LevinThis is a 1-hour discussion between Adam Omary, Roy Baumeister, and Michael Levin on the topics of collective intelligence and possible relevance to economic/social issues above the level of the single individual.
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2023-11-071h 03
Thoughtforms LifeA 1 hour Lecture on Bioelectricity for a Department of Parasitology/Immunology by Michael LevinThis is a 1 hour talk on bioelectricity with a special slant toward microbiology/immunology/parasitology. More information is at
https://thoughtforms.life/?p=1722
including some audio of Q&A afterward.
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2023-11-0558 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation #2 Between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike LevinChris Fields, Richard Watson, and I discuss how memory is stored in trained but static pathway models, and what this means for memory and mind-reading technologies in general.
See https://thoughtforms.life/but-where-is-the-memory-a-discussion-of-training-gene-regulatory-networks-and-its-implications/ for more information and background on this topic.
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2023-10-3156 min
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectric Networks as the Interface to Somatic Intelligence for Regenerative MedicineThis is a ~50 minute talk by Michael Levin to a clinical audience about bioelectricity and why it represents a new approach to medicine.
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2023-09-2950 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation with Mark Solms and Chris FieldsChris Fields, Mark Solms, and Michael Levin discuss what novel behaviors are (in the context of problem-solving in novel circumstances), consciousness in explanted brain pieces, and sleep in unconventional agents.
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2023-09-0155 min
Thoughtforms LifeBioelectrical Signals Reveal, Induce, and Normalize CancerThis is a ~1 hour talk by Mike Levin on the bioelectrics of cancer as a breakdown of multicellularity and collective intelligence of morphogenesis.
The full title is: "Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer: a perspective on cancer as a disease of dynamic geometry"
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2023-08-1552 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation With Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinWe discuss definitions of a Self from the perspective of history and anticipation, free will and responsibility, what learning (generalizing) agents bring to the table beyond the input data, truly alien aliens, and whether your brain is really necessary (e.g., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023).
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2023-06-0557 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael LevinRichard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-06-031h 01
Thoughtforms LifeIain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mile LevinConversation between Iain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and I. Mostly about the nature of explanation in developmental biology and bioengineering.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-05-3058 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation #1 between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and Michael LevinDiscussion between Richard Watson, Mark Solms, and I about brains, agency, and more.
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
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2023-05-1658 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation #1 between Chris Fields, Richard Watson, and Mike LevinWorking meeting #1 with Chris Fields and Richard Watson. We discuss error-correcting codes (a little; more next time), reductionism, multi-scale controls, and more.
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-05-111h 01
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike LevinA meeting between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and I: active inference, qualia, consciousness, brains, bacteria, and more.
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2023-05-0456 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike LevinA meeting between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and I: active inference, qualia, consciousness, brains, bacteria, and more.
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2023-05-0456 min
Thoughtforms LifeWorking Meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard WatsonMike Gazzaniga, Richard Watson, and I discuss split brains, minds, confabulation, and consciousness.
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
Mike Gazzaniga - https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/michael/
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2023-04-181h 14
Thoughtforms LifeWorking Meeting #1 with Mike Gazzaniga and Richard WatsonMike Gazzaniga, Richard Watson, and I discuss split brains, minds, confabulation, and consciousness.
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
Mike Gazzaniga - https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/michael/
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2023-04-181h 14
Thoughtforms LifeIain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike LevinA working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum of being.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
The poem I was referring to half-way through is this one:
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for y...
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2023-04-121h 00
Thoughtforms LifeIain McGilchrist, Richard Watson, and Mike LevinA working meeting discussing machines, life, agency, souls, and the continuum of being.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
The poem I was referring to half-way through is this one:
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for y...
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2023-04-121h 00
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael LevinRichard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-04-021h 01
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael LevinRichard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael Levin discuss the brain, unconventional cognition, oscillations, agency, and more.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-04-021h 01
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike LevinThis is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-03-2257 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike LevinThis is a working meeting and discussion between Mark Solms, Chris Fields, and Mike Levin
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-03-2257 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinA working meeting between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
Douglas Brash - https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/douglas-brash/
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2023-03-1052 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinA working meeting between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
Douglas Brash - https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/douglas-brash/
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2023-03-1052 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael LevinA working meeting between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and myself discussing issues of mind, selfhood, evolution, neuroscience, etc.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-02-2058 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation Between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and Michael LevinA working meeting between Richard Watson, Iain McGilchrist, and myself discussing issues of mind, selfhood, evolution, neuroscience, etc.
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
Richard Watson - https://www.richardawatson.com/
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2023-02-2058 min
Thoughtforms LifeDiverse IntelligenceA talk on "Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional biological, engineered, and hybrid agents" by Michael Levin
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2023-01-281h 20
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael LevinDiscussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-01-2757 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchristConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
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2023-01-2756 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchristConversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
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2023-01-2756 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Douglas Brash - https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/douglas-brash/
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-01-271h 11
Thoughtforms LifeDiscussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael LevinDiscussion: Chris Fields, Mark Solms, Michael Levin
Mark Solms - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vD4p8rQAAAAJ&hl=en
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-01-2757 min
Thoughtforms LifeMichael Levin Talk on Bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium
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2023-01-2755 min
Thoughtforms LifeConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael LevinConversation between Douglas Brash, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin
Douglas Brash - https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/douglas-brash/
Chris Fields - https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/
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2023-01-271h 11
Thoughtforms LifeCancer Talk by Michael Levin (2021)
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2021-09-1744 min
Rural MattersCountry Views with Zachary Michael JackMichelle chats with Zachary Michael Jack, the author of a superb book, called Country Views, which deals with his choice to remain in rural Iowa and reflects his personal views and historical data on agrarianism and rural life,. Jack, who has written columns for many of the nation's best-circulated newspapers, including USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as The Daily Yonder, describes some the vexing issues facing rural communities, including the use of chemicals in agriculture and the lesser life expectancies facing many rural residents, compared to those in metropolitan areas. Jack also dis...
2020-12-0134 minHealth Innovation MattersInteroperability with Datica's Dave LevinLogan chats with Dr. Dave Levin, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, about his company's technology in the new normal created by COVID. With an extensive background in health technology followed by medical school and very prominent positions as a practicing physician in family medicine, Medical Director, and as CMO at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Levin has been a pioneer in getting practitioners to "put down their pens and use their keyboards," Dr. Levin believes that computers are transformational agents in health care. Datica's mission, he says, is to better enable those who are in the business of transforming digital...
2020-04-2932 minEducation ExcellenceSubstitute Teachers & Strategic Planning with Michael McLaughlin and Mike TengKristina chats with Michael McLaughlin, superintendent of the San Leandro Unified School District in California since 2013 and Mike Teng, CEO and co-founder of Swing Education, a tech-enabled marketplace that connects substitute teachers with schools in need. McLaughlin talks about rebuilding the infrastructure of the school district, including the introduction of new technology and the concept of aggressively competing against other schools, including charter schools. McLaughlin discusses the implementation and benchmarking of three-year strategic plans, and the importance of celebrating successes, including those involving student achievement, school safety, and re-branding of the district. The teacher shortage is definitely real in C...
2019-06-1438 minEducation ExcellenceClassroom Design with Jolene Levin and Troy MooreKristina chats with Jolene Levin, a director at NorvaNivel, an education company founded in Australia in 2010, and Troy Moore, head of Mariners Christian School in Orange County, CA, about the importance of matching classroom design to today's and tomorrow's pedagogy, especially in these times of increasing inclusion and meeting the needs of the "whole" student. Levin explains that "form follows function" when it comes to classroom design. Moore notes that NorvaNivel's furniture, which might be viewed as a bit radical, matched the needs of his teachers to be ready for the next generation of students. Levin notes that the...
2019-05-1330 min
SwampcastPodcast from the Swamp! Featuring Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java"In today's Podcast from the Swamp, Mike Levin interviews Bruce Eckel; author of Thinking in Java, teacher, and consultant. Enjoy!
2005-08-0800 minSwampcastThis Saturday GatorJUG podcast is an interview by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel! (part 3 of 4)This is a GatorJUG podcast interview in 4 parts by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel. This is part 3 of 4.
Topics include:
Weblogs, RSS, Podcasts, Aggregators and "rolling your own"
Groovy, Nice, D, Java, Python, C++
The open source movement, copyrights, pros and cons
Custom software versus components
eXtreme Programming, Lean Programming and trad software development
Books Bruce has written: Thinking in Java, Python, Enterprise Java, Patterns and everything else...
Bruce's blog: "Thinking About Computing"
Enjoy! and, please let us know what you think...
2004-10-2300 minSwampcastThis Saturday GatorJUG podcast is an interview by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel! (part 4 of 4)This is a GatorJUG podcast interview in 4 parts by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel. This is part 4 of 4.
Topics include:
Weblogs, RSS, Podcasts, Aggregators and "rolling your own"
Groovy, Nice, D, Java, Python, C++
The open source movement, copyrights, pros and cons
Custom software versus components
eXtreme Programming, Lean Programming and trad software development
Books Bruce has written: Thinking in Java, Python, Enterprise Java, Patterns and everything else...
Bruce's blog: "Thinking About Computing"
Enjoy! and, please let us know what you think...
2004-10-2300 minSwampcastThis Saturday GatorJUG podcast is an interview by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel! (part 2 of 4)This is a GatorJUG podcast interview in 4 parts by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel. This is part 2 of 4.
Topics include:
Weblogs, RSS, Podcasts, Aggregators and "rolling your own"
Groovy, Nice, D, Java, Python, C++
The open source movement, copyrights, pros and cons
Custom software versus components
eXtreme Programming, Lean Programming and trad software development
Books Bruce has written: Thinking in Java, Python, Enterprise Java, Patterns and everything else...
Bruce's blog: "Thinking About Computing"
Enjoy! and, please let us know what you think...
2004-10-2300 minSwampcastThis Saturday GatorJUG podcast is an interview by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel! (part 1 of 4)This is a GatorJUG podcast interview in 4 parts by Mike Levin with Bruce Eckel. This is part 1 of 4.
Topics include:
Weblogs, RSS, Podcasts, Aggregators and "rolling your own"
Groovy, Nice, D, Java, Python, C++
The open source movement, copyrights, pros and cons
Custom software versus components
eXtreme Programming, Lean Programming and trad software development
Books Bruce has written: Thinking in Java, Python, Enterprise Java, Patterns and everything else...
Bruce's blog: "Thinking About Computing"
Enjoy! and, please let us know what you think...
2004-10-2300 minSwampcastInterview of Serge Beauregard, ActiveWords co-founderMichael Levin of GatorJUG interviews Serge Beauregard, software developer and entrepreneur
2004-10-1900 min