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

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin To join the next edition please visit https://www.adventuresinawareness.com... If you would like to support future content, contributions are greatly appreciated at: Patreon:   / adventuresinawareness   In the UK: https://pay.gocardless.com/AL00048KYK... One-off PayPal donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/adven... 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/