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0:00 Introduction
1:57 Are there any hobbies that you find particularly enjoyable of fulfilling? [Mike’s photos can be found on his Twitter @   / drmichaellevin  ]
2:39 How did you become interested in the topic of bioelectricity and regenerative medicine? What sparked your curiosity?
5:31 Can you name a couple of people who have had a major influence on the way you approach your work?
8:41 What advice would you give students who have an interest in pursuing synthetic biology?
15:32 If you were to merge your research with a completely different field, what kind of hybrid discipline would you create?
19:19 Can you tell us a little bit about your interest in the AI generated art that you have been tweeting?
22:30 Do you think there's a tradeoff between AI gestalt/language models and mathematically rigorous models?
25:05 What's the most surprising or unexpected connection you've seen between your work and consciousness?
31:20 Consciousness or sentience as a continuum.
33:48 Is consciousness necessarily accompanied with physical systems, or is it something more fundamental?
36:30 If you had the power to instantaneously solve one mystery in the field of consciousness, which one would you choose and why?
38:28 What are xenobots and what are you doing with them?
42:00 What is an agential material?
46:13 Xenobots [continued]
52:18 What is the most significant unanswered question related to bioelectricity and xenobots?
59:33 Do you think it's possible to talk with cells via bioelectric signals?
1:03:19 If you could send a message to extraterrestrial life, what message would you send and how would you encode it?
1:06:53 Mike's idea of designing a gravitational synapse.
1:09:00 Michael's tweet where he asked if elementary particles are allowed to save state.
1:12:45 Can you elaborate on wether you seen any connection between historicity of particles, memory, and your own research?
1:17:10 What's the inspiration behind your photography, and your Midjourney creations?
1:19:20 How do you think the merge between technology and biology could occur?