Open Q&A with Michael Levin
- Mon 18th Nov 2024, 7pm – 8pm GMT (UTC +00:00)
- Online
- https://dandelion.events/e/z925v
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An open Q&A with Michael Levin, raising money for the American Humane to support their work saving animal lives and ensuring their safety, welfare and well-being.
When you register to attend you can make a donation and submit a question. Questions received get listed below, in order of the highest contribution,
We will select questions based on donation amount, asking them in order of the highest donation.
You can ‘crowd source’ towards your question by asking others to sponsor your question, so it appears higher in the list of questions!
We will likely have time to discuss the top 6 to 10 questions.
If you want to crowd source to get more people sponsoring your question, just share this link and tell them to enter your question when they register.
Please submit just one question per donation, but you can donate again to ask a new question, or increase the sponsorship of your existing one.
Any donation amount is accepted and will support the work. Here is a short guide of what your contribution will mean:
Money raised so far: £25
Questions so far:
Raised £25
Is your work changing only the current biological paradigm or also physicalism? What are your thoughts about panpsychism, idealism, and process philosophy?
About Michael Levin
Michael Levin, a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts (https://drmichaellevin.org/), holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/). He is also an associate member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard (https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/associate-faculty/michael-levin-ph-d/).
His group works at the intersection of developmental biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science. Seeking general principles of life-as-it-can-be, they use a wide range of natural animal models and also create novel synthetic and chimeric life forms.
Their goal is to develop conceptual frameworks and practical tools that help detect, understand, predict, and communicate with truly diverse intelligences, including cells, tissues, organs, synthetic living constructs, robots, and software-based AIs. His mission is to develop fundamental understanding of how minds of all kinds arise, scale, persist, and change, and to use that knowledge to benefit the embodied experience of sentient beings, through biomedicine and beyond.
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