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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New #paper: rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/organ... Mostly unaltered conversation among some great people on the definitions of life.

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Playing with a new IR filter. #photography thoughtforms.life/infrared-pho...

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Sometimes just nature, sometimes with props:

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

some life forms enjoying a fine water mist. No timelapse (real time):

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

sunrise (should have had tripod...)

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A bookshelf in my office at the lab:

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Yeah; it's not about me per se, it's more about the community and those "free riders" who complain to us about biomedical research and then when they or their kid gets sick, run to the hospital praying that someone has figured out what to do. I made a chart:

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What the heck is this, inside my tangerine?!

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

New preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... "Self-improvising Memories: a perspective on memories as agential, dynamically-reinterpreting cognitive glue" This draft will surely be changed a lot (shortened & sanitized) when it becomes a reviewed paper, so here's the original.

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Had just realized that this paper: www.cell.com/trends/molec... "Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body" which we had marked to publish as open access was not in fact outside paywall. They just fixed it - should be accessible to everyone now.

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Cool new paper (not mine): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here's what our FieldShift system levinlab.dev/fieldshift (which exploits symmetries between building minds in neuroscience & building bodies in morphogenesis) says the abstract would look like as a developmental biology paper:

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Some very interesting reading just came out: Great open-access collection book on teleonomy: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi... Also, a special issue on same topic: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/i... With cover image made by Jeremy Guay:

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