Michael Levin on Mind Everywhere

Rupert Sheldrake has said that Michael Levin is "one of the most creative biologists working today" and Bernardo Kastrup that he is “perhaps the most important person alive.”

So I'm beyond excited to have him returning for a dialogue with Bernardo, to discuss his most recent work.

Michael Levin's pioneering research has already challenged mainstream assumptions about life. His work at Harvard and Tufts University shows how even a single cell can display memory and problem-solving abilities once thought exclusive to brains.

He contends that intelligence is a fundamental property of living systems, and that your body is a hierarchy of intelligent entities nested within each other, from your organs down to your cells, molecules and maybe even subatomic particles.

Michael aims to empirically demonstrate how these systems cooperate and combine, and his experiments with flatworms and tadpoles indicate that bioelectric fields may play a role. These could explain how a planaria can regenerate its dissected brain and the memories of what it had learnt. Or how the cells on the back of a tadpole can be directed to spontaneously form a working eye.

You can see previous conversations between them via the links below:

Zoom room

Tues 12th May, 2026
6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST