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Michael Levin: “Robot Cancer” and the Software of Life

ALife 2020 Conference · Talk · YouTube title: Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer
Why it's here

HN readers point to it as a companion to other Levin material on bioelectricity, goal-directedness in cells and cancer as a breakdown in cell communication.

What it covers

Michael Levin's keynote at the ALife 2020 conference, 'Robot Cancer', on how bioelectric signaling in embryogenesis and regeneration informs unconventional computing, cognition and the 'software of life'. He argues biology offers lessons for building adaptive machines.