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Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer

ALife 2020 Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Biology & biotechnologyConsciousness & cognition

What it is

Michael Levin's keynote at the ALife 2020 conference, 'Robot Cancer', on how bioelectric signaling in embryogenesis and regeneration informs unconventional computing, cognition and the 'software of life'. He argues biology offers lessons for building adaptive machines.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN readers point to it as a companion to other Levin material on bioelectricity, goal-directedness in cells and cancer as a breakdown in cell communication.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “here is a similar keynote lecture from the same person, but a bit more recent and with a few other very interesting notes”

    Keynote by Michael Levin with further remarkable notes on cell behavior.

    ve55, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines”

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Topics: michael levin, bioelectricity, regeneration, cancer, artificial life, cognition

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