#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.

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Michael Levin’s Website: https://drmichaellevin.org

Michael Levin’s Papers: https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/

– Biological Robots: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880

– Classical Sorting Algorithms: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375

– Aging as a Morphostasis Defect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38636560/

– TAME: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346

– Synthetic Living Machines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571

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