We discuss Michael Levin's paper "Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue." Levin is a scientist at Tufts University, his lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making across biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. His work spans developmental biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science.
❶ Memories as Agents
0:00 Introduction
1:40 2024 Highlights from Levin Lab
3:20 Stress sharing paper summary
6:15 Paradox of change: Species persist don't evolve
7:20 Bow-tie architectures
10:00 🔥 Memories as messages from your past self
12:50 Polycomputing
16:45 Confabulation
17:55 What evidence supports the idea that memories are agential?
22:00 Thought experiment: Entities from earth's core
❷ Information Patterns
31:30 Memory is not a filing cabinet
32:30 Are information patterns agential?
35:00 🔥 Caterpillar/butterfly... sea slug memory transfer
37:40 Bow-tie architectures are EVERYWHERE
43:20 Bottlenecks "scary" for information
❸ Connections & Implications
45:30 🔥 Black holes/white holes as bow-ties (Lee Smolin)
47:20 What is confabulation? AI hallucinations
52:30 Gregg Henriques & self-justifying apes... all good agents storytellers
54:20 Information telling stories... Joseph Campbell's journey for a single cell
1:00:50 What comes next?
🚾 Works Cited
🚩 Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/6/481
thoughtforms.life/suti-the-search-for-unconventional-terrestrial-intelligence/
Biohacking our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin (Big Think 2023) th-cam.com/video/D35dTp7it_0/w-d-xo.html
peregrinecr.com/
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