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Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer

ALife 2020 Conference · 7.6K views · 2020-08-14 · 1:04:08

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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.

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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.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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ve55 · 2021-04 · Recommendation

For those that enjoyed this (and it is quite amazing), here is a similar keynote lecture from the same person, but a bit more recent and with a few other very interesting notes: [VIDEO]

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ly3xqhl8g9 · 2023-04 · Reference

Levin, M. (2021), "Bioelectric Signaling: Reprogrammable Circuits Underlying Embryogenesis, Regeneration, and Cancer", Cell [1] is a general overview how cancer is a breakdown in communications leading to a down-scale of the self for the affected cell, see also Levin, M. (2021), "Bioelectrical approaches to cancer as a problem of the scaling of the cellular self", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology [2]; for more articles [3]. In video format: "Why don't (today's) Robots get Cancer" [4] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [VIDEO]

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flobosg · 2022-01 · Reference

More about Michael Levin: What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System – [LINK] Why don’t (today’s) Robots get Cancer? – [VIDEO] The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life – [LINK] And a tweet about the article – [LINK]

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