#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
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Episode 486 · November 30, 2025
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
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<p>Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.<br />
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<p><b>EPISODE LINKS:</b><br />
Michael Levin’s X: <a href="https://x.com/drmichaellevin">https://x.com/drmichaellevin</a><br />
Michael Levin’s Website: <a href="https://drmichaellevin.org">https://drmichaellevin.org</a><br />
Michael Levin’s Papers: <a href="https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/">https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/</a><br />
– Biological Robots: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880">https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880</a><br />
– Classical Sorting Algorithms: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375">https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375</a><br />
– Aging as a Morphostasis Defect: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38636560/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38636560/</a><br />
– TAME: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346">https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346</a><br />
– Synthetic Living Machines: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571</a></p>
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