Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis

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LINKS MENTIONED:

- Michael Levin (Solo TOE podcast): https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc

- Michael Levin Theolocution With Chris Fields & Karl Friston: https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw

- Joscha Bach Theolocution With John Vervaeke: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4

- Joscha Bach Theolocution With Donald Hoffman: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww

- Joscha Bach (Solo TOE podcast): https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI

This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org/

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:01:55 Bach and Levin speak about each other's work

00:03:34 The cell functions as a neuron 

00:07:15 Software as a control pattern

00:10:55 Disciplinary boundaries in academia

00:14:38 The perceptron is a "toy model" of the brain

00:18:44 How do you identify yourself as a researcher?

00:20:10 The benefits of podcasts vs. academia

00:30:04 Beliefs of Bach's and Levin's that have drastically changed

00:38:54 Memory moves outside the brain structure

00:45:06 Engrams and memory storage

00:47:30 The implications of transferring memory between species

00:55:25 Weissman's barrier

00:59:25 The notion of "competence" (Bach's and Levin's largest insight)

01:12:10 Virtualization for unreliable hardware

01:16:02 Defining "competence"

01:22:35 Bach's issues with goals (for and against teleology)

01:27:34 Planarian goals and explicitly encoded instructions

01:34:55 Navigation in "Morphic Space"

01:36:11 One species' birth defect can be another's benefit

01:37:42 The "Intelligence Trap" and bias

01:39:05 Application of each others' work to their own

01:52:25 Necessities of general intelligence in cells