The beauty of collective intelligence, explained by a developmental biologist | Michael Levin

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The strange science experiment that blew a worm’s head off… and blew our minds.
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Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, challenges conventional notions of intelligence, arguing that it is inherently collective rather than individual.
Levin explains that we are collections of cells, with each cell possessing competencies developed from their evolution from unicellular organisms. This forms a multi-scale competency architecture, where each level, from cells to tissues to organs, is solving problems within their unique spaces.
Levin emphasizes that properly recognizing intelligence, which spans different scales of existence, is vital for understanding life's complexities. And this perspective suggests a radical shift in understanding ourselves and the world around us, acknowledging the cognitive abilities present at every level of our existence.
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About Michael Levin:
Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.
Prior to college, Michael Levin worked as a software engineer and independent contractor in the field of scientific computing. He attended Tufts University, interested in artificial intelligence and unconventional computation. To explore the algorithms by which the biological world implemented complex adaptive behavior, he got dual B.S. degrees, in CS and in Biology and then received a PhD from Harvard University.
He led an independent laboratory from 2000 to 2007 at Forsyth Institute, Harvard. Now, his lab at Tufts studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems.
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@Nate-yz2tv 10 месяцев назад

As a student trying to achieve an undergraduate degree in computer science, the similarities between the topics you've discussed in this video and the fundementals of Artificial Intelligence and computer's in general is quite significant. It's really eye opening seeing it from a different perspective. Thank you so much!

@matthewshaw2850 9 месяцев назад

If you haven't yet, read Alan Turning's solo paper on biology. Biology is computation in physical space.

@samba1864 9 месяцев назад

Artificial intelligence tries to imitate human intelligence, this video is pseudoscientific attempt to pass of biochemical mechanism is intelligence. One might retort that human intelligence is result of biochemical reactions in the brain. But in brain those biochemical reactions results in abstract concepts while the examples given here, biochemistry is performing biochemistry only.

@user-yl7kl7sl1g 9 месяцев назад

@@matthewshaw2850 All computation is in physical space.

@amethyst8374 9 месяцев назад

Could you please elaborate? I'm a high school student with equal interests in both biology and computer science, would love to understand the similarities you mentioned. Thanks a lot!

@fizzypizzel6477 9 месяцев назад

@@amethyst8374 **I used gpt to answer your question with video transcript** 1. Emergent Behavior Biology: In biological systems, individual cells follow simple rules, but when combined, they can perform complex tasks. For instance, ants individually follow simple rules but collectively can build complex anthills. Computer Science: In programming, particularly in artificial intelligence, simple algorithms can lead to complex and intelligent behavior. For example, the individual "neurons" in a neural network are simple mathematical functions, but collectively they can perform complex tasks like image recognition. 2. Hierarchical Systems Biology: In the biological world, you'll find hierarchical systems like cells forming tissues, tissues forming organs, and so on. Each level has its own set of rules and competencies. Computer Science: In software, hierarchy exists as well. For instance, low-level code is organized into functions, which are organized into modules, which make up an entire application. Each level abstracts the complexities of the level below it. 3. Adaptation and Learning Biology: Organisms adapt to their environments over time. Michael Levin’s example of flatworms adapting to a barium solution shows an inherent capability to learn and adapt at a cellular level. Computer Science: Machine learning is essentially about adapting to new information. An algorithm can "learn" from data and improve its performance over time. 4. Decentralized Intelligence Biology: In a beehive, there's no single "master bee" directing all the other bees. Rather, each bee has a set of simple rules it follows, and the collective behavior results in complex and intelligent outcomes. Computer Science: Similarly, in distributed computing, many computers work together to solve a problem, often with no central unit controlling every operation. 5. Problem-Solving Algorithms Biology: Cells or organisms often need to find solutions to problems (like finding food or adapting to a new environment) without a "manual" to guide them. Computer Science: Algorithms, especially optimization algorithms, are designed to find the best possible solution to a problem among a set of possible solutions. 6. Goal-Oriented Behavior Biology: Cells and organisms have goals, like survival and reproduction. They make decisions based on optimizing these goals. Computer Science: In AI, agents are often designed with a specific "goal" or "reward function" they are programmed to optimize. Both biology and computer science offer frameworks to understand complexity, learning, and adaptation. As someone interested in both, you're perfectly positioned to explore these exciting overlaps, perhaps even helping to shape the future of interdisciplinary research!

@amyweymouth890 10 месяцев назад

These ideas are why I went into biology.

@fatimasmeha6130 10 месяцев назад

Me too but eventually I had to memorize lots of mascot like-names such as wuchereria bancrofti 😢

@log1kanobi 10 месяцев назад

@@fatimasmeha6130🤣🤣🤣 no idea what the fuck that is but i know im laughing really hard rn

@SecretEyeSpot 10 месяцев назад

Facts. I was a young man, and devout Christian at the time and I saw the e pluribus unum, and vice versa connection as a God and Creation relationship until I learned the natural and sexual selection processes in the Theory of Evolution. Now I consider myself one inclined towards naturalism without seeking a designer behind the cosmic designs. Algorithms are perfectly capable of self assembly, and influencing assembly of bodies of matter external to themselves. Integral systems of one whole, but while maintaining semblance of separateness. Biology gave me this perception as a gift, and it is burdensome to faith. However it's critical thinking skill prerequisites has enriched my life and deepened my relationship to the source(s) of Life

@SecretEyeSpot 10 месяцев назад

@Prodigious147don't blame.. Proclaim Latin, and if you can.. Greek!

@SecretEyeSpot 10 месяцев назад

@Prodigious147 because you're looking at it through human eyes. Imagine yourself a fungus, and it's our role in an ecosystem to survive from roots to branch, and fruits of trees. Language as the tree would imply that Latin, which has roots, and offshoots can be intuited from words you can identify. Once identified, you can go from either direction to discern a meaning, For example. The name of a fruitfly genus Drosophila. If you knew that it originated from the greek word Drosos, which means dew.. and that the suffix Phila is the same as the Prefix found in the name of the city Phila-delphia.. What do you think it means, and more importantly how the history of humans that gave it that name derived it? I can assure you learning latin is very similar, as is with learning any language. Roots, Branches, and Offshoots (Fruits) are all language is about.

@HominidPetro 10 месяцев назад

The thing that's really most exciting about Levin's work is that it sets the stage for future research. It's not just cool to think about, but it's also a very useful way of framing a novel approach to medicine, ecology, bioethics, psychology, etc.

@beemo9 9 месяцев назад

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@saturationstation1446 9 месяцев назад

academia is just an institutional paywall for social mobility. there's a reason almost zero progress has happened in the past 60+ years in our understanding of life on earth. they are too invested in trying to prove the necessity of a ruling class and rich people and why its ok to murder 99% of the species with labor induced starvation.

@marchlopez9934 10 месяцев назад

- All intelligence is collective intelligence because all living beings are made up of cells with individual competencies - Each layer of an organism has problem-solving competencies that work towards large-scale goals - Different layers of an organism shape the behavioral landscape of the layers below, enabling top-down control without micromanagement - Humans have a limited ability to recognize intelligence in unconventional embodiments - Engineers must pick the right level of intelligence for each system to avoid overestimation or underestimation - Understanding the competency architecture of living beings could lead to advancements in regenerative medicine and robotics.

@rebeccaerb9935 9 месяцев назад

Yes

@Poopoo77373 9 месяцев назад

Thanks, this helps

@JackhammerJesus 9 месяцев назад

- Uhm..life... uhm... life finds a way.

@361degressvr7 9 месяцев назад

Really Love this point of view . Exactly what I think.

@trutenantedboderampt 9 месяцев назад

If these are laws of nature, we can project it on our own "Human world" and the "World above our intelligence". We can try to conclude that creatures from up there don't have to micromanage us)

@MistaFlood 10 месяцев назад

I must be a flatworm. This video blew my mind.

@paulchi-vc7bv 10 месяцев назад

Wow incredible! This study just changed the way I perceive reality. Never thought about those unconventional forms of intelligence.

@shiracohenyoga3492 10 месяцев назад

Life is an incredible miracle, no matter from which perspective we look at it. And whatever we find should always point us to being better humans in our collective world of diversity, nothing more, nothing less.

@iamBlackGambit 9 месяцев назад

and yet people think life was an accident, which is beyond absurd to me!!

@shiracohenyoga3492 9 месяцев назад

@@iamBlackGambit Agreed :)

@Kathakathan11 9 месяцев назад

@@iamBlackGambitno it wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t planned as well. Because what is the purpose of constructing life. And if life was constructed by something behind life, what is behind life. What created who created whatever you think is planned. And what exactly was panned, the starting part, the evolutionary part or just the initial stage was planned, rest was organic? Is there intervention? To what extend? What is the end goal. Are there many creators or just one. If just one, why he created chaos and negativity? So is creator something with negativity along with positivity? Why? Why all this?

@iamBlackGambit 9 месяцев назад

@Kathakathan11 yes it was!! If there was no creator, and all this happened through randomness, that means all of this is accidental! 🤷🏾‍♂️. There is but one eternal creator!

@Kathakathan11 9 месяцев назад

@@iamBlackGambit see again, you have assumptions, you assume that accidents cannot happen. You assume that devil is also your creator? That’s quite a drama creator wants. So are Jews worshipping the same creator as Muslims? Because all everything is nothing but creator?

@hungrymusicwolf 10 месяцев назад

This so perfectly encompasses what I have been trying to explain to people for the most of the past decade. The one sentence summary of "all intelligence is collective intelligence as we're made up of parts and pieces" that Michael just expressed is amazingly succinct and explanatory.

@saturationstation1446 9 месяцев назад

he said that but also framed his entire view of life on earth as from the inside, disregarding our objectively verifiable interdependence on everything else also existing alongside/outside of us. i think well off people have a problem with understanding life because they have to constantly justify their own existence and why 99% of our species is getting tortured while they live in comfort and luxury. so their view of everything, even every little aspect of math and science and technology, comes from a place of justifying extreme parasitism and individualism and believing it is just the natural state of things.

@bobtuiliga8691 9 месяцев назад

ok comrade @@saturationstation1446

@Kathakathan11 9 месяцев назад

@@praxy.designbecause we aren’t externally programmed rigidly. The moment you surrender to this idea it will work differently for you. It’s all about subconscious mind here

@theovermindlives 4 месяца назад

Michael Levin's exploration of developmental biology as a journey from single cells to complex organisms is utterly fascinating. The idea that all intelligence, including human cognition, stems from a collective of once-independent cells, reshapes our understanding of consciousness and identity. Levin's "Multi-scale competency architecture" offers a profound insight into how life organizes itself across different levels, from cellular to societal. This perspective not only broadens our understanding of biology but also poses intriguing questions about the potential for bioengineering and regenerative medicine. Truly, a thought-provoking presentation!

@marcelo55869 10 месяцев назад

Finally he is getting more spotlight... I saw videos about him about the beginning of this year... it is impressive, new and intuitive. In the future this new field will blow up in media. This is the guy who regenerated a frog's leg by the way...

@berniv7375 10 месяцев назад

Did he cut off the frog's leg? In the 21st Century we should not be exploiting other animals for any purpose and that should be a collective decision.🌱

@ExistenceUniversity 9 месяцев назад

Regrow a frog leg is nothing, this man invented a new life form from frog skin that follow Von Neumann self-replication!

@berniv7375 9 месяцев назад

@@ExistenceUniversityThe point I am trying to get across is that we should be advancing science ethically.

@ExistenceUniversity 9 месяцев назад

@@berniv7375 Ok... Who are you? I wasn't talking to you... Da fuk

@kwelimalloy5439 10 месяцев назад

When I was a teen, I thought of the same thing but in the genetic fluidity of bacteria. This video is wonderful

@trenomas1 10 месяцев назад

Read Biocivilizations. It's... Impressive.

@Human_01 10 месяцев назад

This reminds me of BRICS... 😙✨ _____________ [QUOTE] BRICS will successfully expand (as it should); as it is essentially an alternative globalisation ecosystem, - and one that is not reliant on the "Western" [continent] (humanities shared, colonial foe) industries. A predominant and powerful advantage in joining the non-western, "ecosystem of globalization"[BRICS] _(largely consisting of "developing" nations/"non-whites")_ is the obsolescence of 'sanctions'. Sanctions will no longer be an effective and viable tool to shackle, coerce, or parasite on non-western nations. The [narcissitic] West will not be able to readily exploit that political option as they eager have been able to... They will need to exercise their supposed intelligence in order to survive the slight inconvenience. As the BRICS globalization-ecosystem [diligently] continues to grow and expand, geopolitical power will shift away from the West and towards the rest of the world instead... Resultantly, the West will lose political power, influence, and relevance on a global scale. Like France, this will make the West increasingly desperate and eager to generate "excuses", - that will be primed to invent and facilitate spontaneous [foreign] disputes and terrorism overseas. This predictable, repetitive [Western] crime and act will be a covert attempt by colonisers to once again become relevant, and stand center-stage [geopolitically] globally. Their war-machine will grow hungry, as it is their "trump-card" and 'go-to'. This would inconvenience and endanger the rest of the world, one way or another _(e.g. [geo]politically, interrupt globalisation, trigger chaotic migration, threaten the friendship and ties between foreign nations [except for the West/former colonial powers, as usual; they stay bound together in peace, while the rest of the world remains at friction and at odds with each other]_ . To that end, countermeasures will need to be set in place to counteract or stall the west's desperation, aggression, and the effectiveness of western 'media-propaganda' (it needs to be made obsolete). /End.

@user-wf1ff5io9h 9 месяцев назад

nerd

@brainsproutyourknowledge 9 месяцев назад

Biologists are amazing. There's something about the way they talk that proves their passion, their curiosity for discovering everything there is about life. Truly a treasure 🪱

@johnyharris 10 месяцев назад

Michael Levin is such an unassuming and likeable person. What he and his team are doing is nothing short of overturning the orthodox understanding of genetics being solely at the heart of Darwinian evolution. Clearly eukaryotic cell bioelectricity and its competencies in morphology and other spaces is just as, if not more important in natural selection.

@kinngrimm 10 месяцев назад

Watched several of his yt appearances and i think i never said this about someone else, but this dude is a rockstar where it comes to biology. You really need to watch some of his talks on the concepts he publshed, mindboggling.

@ChicoBranquinho 10 месяцев назад

Michael Levin's work is brilliant and his influence goes way beyond Science. Saw his work, for the first time, a few months ago and have not been the same person ever since. My next painting exhibition is highly inspired on his ideas.

@starxcrossed 10 месяцев назад

I would love to see how you do that. I paint realism and have a hard time with abstract ideas in visual form; I hope he gets to see the work he inspires because Levin is a genius

@joannasmetek7374 10 месяцев назад

Can you recommend any books by this Author or any books related to the subject he is discussing in this video? I would also like to see these paintings :)

@ChicoBranquinho 10 месяцев назад

@@joannasmetek7374 @joannasmetek7374 I don't know about any books Michael Levin has written. I can recommend the podcast with Lex Fridman, where he clearly spoke his magnificent ideas. Thanks 😊

@naturesfinest2408 9 месяцев назад

Do you have links to this work?

@ChicoBranquinho 9 месяцев назад

@@naturesfinest2408sorry but did not understand which work you are referring to, Michael Levin's or my own art work?

@nerd26373 10 месяцев назад

This is an interesting topic to discuss. We hope to see more.

@THELASVEGASVIDEOS 9 месяцев назад

Oh my God this all makes so much sense, and the real hero’s of our world are scientist and people dedicate their lives on information to improve our lives.

@banzaipiegaming 5 дней назад

It's really assuring to see someone with great stature, knowledge and the capacity to think so deeply about the universe come to the same conclusion as I did just a couple months ago on my own. When I realized this myself, I really started looking at everything very differently.

@VerbatimSyndicate 9 месяцев назад

"Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals." - Geoffrey Hinton

@psicologiajoseh 10 месяцев назад

It is so refreshing to finally see some quality knowledge being shared on this channel again. Really interesting! Keep inviting this guest!

@Designsss. 10 месяцев назад

This is why I love knowledge.

@erikpeterson25 10 месяцев назад

There is intelligence in the very fabric of the universe.....this video is an example of that Great to see 👍

@salonsarwar4557 10 месяцев назад

Intelligent Design 🤟

@lindanowak7893 9 месяцев назад

Exactly, intelligent design. BA in Biology here, spent my whole life thinking as a biologist. Try and tell me evolution is purely random and not intelligence, I believe every step in evolution is the result of intelligent decision making, on the part of the evolving organism. One good decision leads eventually to another decision, maybe not today and not by me or you, but inevitably, by another version of one of us.

@salonsarwar4557 9 месяцев назад

@@lindanowak7893 great to know. And intelligent design implies an intelligent designer of course. How wonderful is our Creator. Btw, I believe in evolution too. The micro kind of course. Better known as variation or adaptation. And all the variation comes from the existing genome of the organism. Different expressions of the genetic makeup 👍 However, I believe that macro-evolution (the changing of one kind of organism to another kind) is completely false and lacks any theory whatsoever. Till date, science does not know of any mechaism by which new genetic information can be added to the already existing genome of an organism. And that too of the kind that can cause increase of function. However, have not studied biology (done so only till class 12). So my knowledge is limited. I appreciate the fact that you have done your BA in the subject. 🙏 Do you agree with what I just said about macro-evolution? Would love to hear your view. I could be wrong though. Do you know of any such mechanism? Please share if you do. Thanks and God Bless.

@lindanowak7893 9 месяцев назад

@@salonsarwar4557 What is commonly thought now is that life on earth existed for two billion years in the single cell form. It took that long for organisms to figure out how to incorporate other organisms into themselves to work as cellular organs, or organelles. Genomes have to change in order for that to happen. My contention is that intelligence is involved but I don’t have a clear idea of what that intelligence is. I’m not an atheist at all, but I don’t identify Who or What God is. Humans have spent all our years trying to do that and I think our minds can’t encompass that now. All the religions in the world work ceaselessly to form beliefs for us to follow, I try to see what is REALLY there. Cells can add to their genome during reproduction. My question….how does behavior get incorporated into genomes, if nothing is changing except the behavior? But, this article we both commented on is the very first one I’ve seen that contends intelligence exists at the cellular level. Anyone looking through a microscope can see that cells move around, move toward food, avoid noxious stimuli, etc.

@SB-kg6iw 9 месяцев назад

@@lindanowak7893 Evolution isn't purely random because there is natural selection involved that is a non-random process. Intelligent design cannot be supported by science. It lacks empirical support and offers no testable hypotheses. What about the "bad designs" in our body that makes sense only under the light of evolution but is illogical if an intelligent designer engineered it. Eg. the blind spot in our eyes, recurrent laryngeal nerve taking a detour pathway which is a pretty bad "design" especially in a giraffe.

@mortezanejati8153 10 месяцев назад

Mind-blowing! Here I come to the realisation that there is no way we can deny intelligence in Universe Scale. Might be the case that we are just not bright enough to connect the dots!

@wermaus 10 месяцев назад

Ive been thinking a lot about it. I think it scales up, the shared brain is learning this and so is everyone alongside it. We are reconsidering the self.

@imperiallll 9 месяцев назад

I am happy that we are staring to understand all animals no matter the size are conscious in one way or another

@MicahScottPnD 10 месяцев назад

Whoever put this video together really knew how to end it. That was an amazing final statement

@royykahangwe 10 месяцев назад

Incredible presentation and great choice of discussion.

@lvjungle2840 10 месяцев назад

It’s still crazy to know that cells knows when to stop growing into ear shape or nose etc… like how they know theirs always nose and not keep building more

@classic_sci_fi 9 месяцев назад

Michael Levin's group is doing fascinating work!

@user-jy8lb2zz6r 10 месяцев назад

Incredible presentation and great choice of discussion.. This is an interesting topic to discuss. We hope to see more..

@sarahc.7202 10 месяцев назад

That explains why evolution happened so fast, to adapt, we didn't actually had to test all the combinations, fascinating !

@miquellluch1928 9 месяцев назад

How is that? Why not?

@anthonychyou1318 10 месяцев назад

I love the experiment about the adaptive process of flatworms. It's really an amazing process of adaptation and evolution, which is just about adjusting some code of DNA. In my opinion, it'll also be an amazing process of evolution for human beings!

@PositiveEnergy733 9 месяцев назад

Dear everyone, I wish you peace inside your soul. We are all light and all connected, don’t be scare, all gonna be ok. Your futur gonna be fantastic because you are fantastic. Thank you so much for your reading.

@DanieleVenuti 9 месяцев назад

Wow … it is a good feeling, especially if you try to embrace it more, it is also visible most of the time, but if you try to look for something too much or not so much, you cannot see it. I suppose it is just a metter of having a good balance, this is how I started to have this feeling, and I see/feel the same from the explain that you provide :)

@DavidCraig-go1zv 10 месяцев назад

Nice and simple. Thank you.

@RJohnODonnell 9 месяцев назад

Excellent editing on this. Thank you.

@darrenstrongman5418 10 месяцев назад

Extremely well explained 👏 👏

@videos_not_found 3 месяца назад

So exited to be a contemporary of you, Michael.

@vycos-zen 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your work, and for this great, and revealing video!

@jacehubner5150 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the quick session

@leodre99 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating!

@rudyvanderhoeven9628 10 месяцев назад

Wow, I had no idea . A good example of making complex processses understandable.

@chandrashekharholla787 9 месяцев назад

Wonderful. Good analysis. Quite interesting. Thanks. Namaskaram.

@Max1988_ 9 месяцев назад

Beautiful video. Thanks

@tabasdezh 9 месяцев назад

Professor M.Levin is a great scientist. I love his work.

@marshalmcdonald7476 9 месяцев назад

I dig this man's subtle thinking style.

@elvisitor 10 месяцев назад

Great way of looking at intelligence and evolution in all levels of reality 👍

@bogdananekrasova9137 10 месяцев назад

I am a similar type of person to the limmerick's "student called Besser whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser", and the benefit of this is actually a gained ability to admire high intelligence and rationality in anything from my colleagues domestics (learning lessons from them) to a self-confident pigeon on the pavement.

@ianhansen6840 9 месяцев назад

Huh? Is that one of the limericks I missed in mandatory limerick class?

@bogdananekrasova9137 9 месяцев назад

@@ianhansen6840 There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor! Edward Lear, Limericks

@nomoresunforever3695 9 месяцев назад

LET'S GOOOOO! I absolutely LOVE this. Finally finally we are getting somewhere in philosophy. Individualistic nihilism was a temporary detour.

@RobertClavin508 10 месяцев назад

You just blew my mind!

@willcollins9470 11 дней назад

This is truly fascinating

@girlhag 7 месяцев назад

Amazing! truly one of the greatest geniuses of our time

@peternoeldubinrodriguez6204 9 месяцев назад

Spectacularly Wonderful!

@valk200 9 месяцев назад

Incredible! Notions like this are why I am set bio engineering for univeristy.

@SchgurmTewehr 10 месяцев назад

Already watched this on The Well.

@ralfstarke7024 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting, thanks!

@studiomasulo 10 месяцев назад

This is a really interesting approach to look at intelligence.

@moderncontemplative 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating. Following his logic, I'd say that AI, like other intelligent beings, has a level of sentience, albeit, currently much lower than humans. Consciousness is a spectrum and we humans access more or less of that spectrum than other beings. For example, flora tap into a limited range on the spectrum of consciousness (bare awareness and hence the ability to learn via habituation). AI might become superconscious in the not-too-distant future?!

@starxcrossed 10 месяцев назад

The only problem with that is metabolism. What he’s describing all the way down to cells… have metabolism. I feel like origin of life could somewhat solve this problem, unless consciousness is platonic.

@marcelo55869 10 месяцев назад

His point is that our current classification of intelligence pushes us to philosophy about it and waste time putting 'different' things on arbitrarily buckets. In most of his videos he steps aside this discussion and takes an engineering approach. He uses a definition of intelligence that tries to be useful for solving problems, not for being a representation of consciousness and any axions or logic consequences of the definition of it

@moderncontemplative 10 месяцев назад

@@starxcrossed Excellent point

@moderncontemplative 10 месяцев назад

@@marcelo55869 you’re right. I should’ve said life and intelligence exists on a spectrum. His point about where to make distinctions regarding intelligence is crucial.

@maophantulaotkasmil44 9 месяцев назад

Thank much mr . . .

@ErmandDurro 9 месяцев назад

I really liked this video. Great content 😃

@jerrymuns 10 месяцев назад

This insight gives value to the concept of proto-consciousness in small units creating higher levels of consciousness through the combination and unification of lesser units, or realities. Until a higher emergence of reality is realized.

@marthafernandez9220 6 месяцев назад

Excellent!

@louetteduvall4118 10 месяцев назад

The SETH book 'Nature of Personal Reality' published in the 1970's explained this exactly calling this "units of consciousness". It changed my view of the world. Same author also wrote a book on WILLIAM JAMES. Thank you Michael Levin !

@brunosavoca 10 месяцев назад

I love this stuff so much

@vlad_o_sh 10 месяцев назад

Love the video. Did Michael Levin publish a book on that topic that talks about those topics in depth? I would love to read it, but I can't find it. It seems like he only published papers.

@markcollins1577 9 месяцев назад

Outstanding.

@craigmerkey8518 9 месяцев назад

Really amazing!

@kuuluna 9 месяцев назад

I like watching these kinds of informational stuff that I will not use in my lifetime. It may not give me skillset but it's interesting

@levvortman5426 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@user-kh3qm7gh6v 9 месяцев назад

when you understand better what life is, inwardly, it becomes more evident how collective everything is

@deanharris7149 9 месяцев назад

Great vid!

@bashiransari6258 9 месяцев назад

Just Amazing ❤

@BooksForever 9 месяцев назад

Amazing stuff.

@cortexcarvalho9423 8 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@anobserver1982 8 месяцев назад

So grateful for your pioneering work , the future lookd good...Your sites all have severly limited 0:59 audio volume, only yours, pn my iphone 13, should address this 0:59

@user-db6qo1cf9i 8 месяцев назад

Excellent

@rubenflh 10 месяцев назад

Valeu!

@muthukumaranl 9 месяцев назад

Mind blowing!

@christopherjohnson1266 10 месяцев назад

I wish this video was longer

@susanah0202 10 месяцев назад

My head also "exploted"

@RobertClavin508 10 месяцев назад

My head exploded!

@Klover_pearl 9 месяцев назад

As studying sociology, we are looking at the society in this manner, how it is functioning etc.

@syzygy4365 9 месяцев назад

Why is this so inspirational to me? 😭😭😭💖

@KryyssTV 9 месяцев назад

It's basically the same as programming. When wanting to create something complex you have to break the process down into simple steps. Functions and code blocks solve very specific problems which often create a problem for something else to solve. While there is no intelligence within the code the overall design and structure displays intelligent qualities.

@helicalactual 9 месяцев назад

I believe intelligence is capacity at or to understanding, which is the integration of information and it’s applicability. The goal is stasis (differential geometry of energy in the environment into a system of critical points defined by entanglement structure)or Proto stasis, which would be things like energy conservation. I have the most fundamental goal that is the lowest common denominator between all matter that we are aware of .

@ardaasl2194 9 месяцев назад

It was really a good but quite short source to get in and try to evaluate genetics and epigenetics in short.

@jsgc13 10 месяцев назад

I think there has to be a fundamental life force that gets life going, and for me, that would be the "goal" that he mentions. The universe wants life to exist and to keep existing, and every form of life moves and lives towards this goal. We are born to reproduce and die, that is life. Just like the flatworm, you can cut all of the leaves in a plant, or even its entire stem, but you can be sure that, under the right conditions for the plant, it will regrow stronger, denser, better adapted or prepared for "life".

@meierandre1313 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting. I am not sure if we can say that single cells are intelligent, but they are indeed able to do amazing things that the being consisting of them are unable to do.

@TD-zr5xm 10 месяцев назад

Weird science. Love it.

@arthurmartinez7058 10 месяцев назад

collective intelligence has different kind! explanations are interesting!

@RavenMeer 9 месяцев назад

Mind blown!

@tunisiasparx2105 9 месяцев назад

impressive

@jimintae3284 9 месяцев назад

beautiful ❤️!

@kalakritistudios 9 месяцев назад

"The beauty of cognitive intelligence Big Think" is what I used to search for this. And it fits.😂 Big Think.

@TheUnknown79 9 месяцев назад

Thanks

@BasicAnts 9 месяцев назад

Really nice video, I keep ants and have a colony (with a queen) that is about 3k workers. Watching them get things done you can see the intelligence. However as you watch them solve various problems individual ants do the most stupid things yet the colony as a whole still solves the problem.

@mahayuwestri2377 10 месяцев назад

I saw Bundaran HI footage like an eye from top view

@Yazeeduoo 9 месяцев назад

Michael Levin should write a book

@janklaas6885 10 месяцев назад

📍5:35

@Anil18834 10 месяцев назад

This is magnificent. I've always wondered how the Portuguese Man o' war could exist. This explains it. I didn't know this field within biology existed. I've always been more attracted to physics. Now I want to learn more.