Michael Levin publishes a starter pack for his lab's work on diverse intelligence
drmichaellevin · x · 2026-10-12
After Midjourney's DavidSHolz asked for reading recommendations, biologist Michael Levin shared a starter pack introducing his lab's academic work on bioelectricity and diverse intelligence.
- Accessible pieces: Aeon essays with Daniel Dennett ("How to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas") and with Yuste ("Modular cognition"), plus his TED talk on the electrical blueprints that orchestrate life.
- Academic tracks on unconventional cognition: papers like "The Computational Boundary of a 'Self'", "Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME)", and "On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems", covering developmental bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cellular collective intelligence as a model for cognition beyond the brain.
- Materials are organized by interest, with reading (black) and video (green) links.
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