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In person (watch together): Room MB 7/159, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Building MB

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Meeting ID: 681 9376 8258  ·  Passcode: 534201

Abstract Michael Levin (Model systems for diverse intelligence research: technological approach to minds everywhere)

Profound philosophical questions of our origins, our true nature, and our possible futures are now tractable at the intersection of developmental biology, synthetic bioengineering, computer science, and cognitive science. In this talk, I will describe my framework aimed at developing new tools for recognizing and communicating with truly diverse intelligences – minds along a spectrum of unconventional embodiments. I will show model systems drawn from our work on regenerative medicine (manipulating the collective intelligence of cells during morphogenesis), and novel synthetic beings. The latter raise fascinating questions about cognitive architectures and preferences of novel beings, who do not have a specific history of selection that drove their features, and I will propose a model and research agenda ongoing in our lab. I will also mention recent ideas around the thoughts-are-thinkers continuum and briefly touch on current work on minimal models of diverse intelligence that hint at a dissolution of familiar old categories, which I argue is an existentially important step for our species.

Venue: BlueSquare, Bochum City Center (Tue) & Tagungsraum II, Mensabuilding, RUB (Wed & Thu)

Conference Homepage: https://predcommlab.github.io/symposium-2026/#about

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Relevant Publications

For full list of selected publications, see the publications page

Neurite density but not myelination of specific fiber tracts links polygenic scores to general intelligence

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Stammen, C., Penate, J. S., Metzen, D., Hönscher, M. J., Fraenz, C., Schlüter, C., Güntürkün, O., Kumsta, R., & Genç, E. (2025). Neurite density but not myelination of specific fiber tracts links polygenic scores to general intelligence. Cerebral Cortex, 35(7), bhaf199. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf199

Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning

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Lissek, S., & Tegenthoff, M. (2025). Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1592929. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1592929

Extinction context is learned by pigeons, not given by the environment

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Bagheri, M., Woud, M., Fachri Oglou, I., Fachri Oglou, F., Ratzkowski, J., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. (2025). An Experimental Investigation of the Causal Role of Mental Imagery in the Experience of Involuntary Memories. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.55913/joep.v1i2.48

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Minds, Brains, and Deep Learning: The Development of Cognitive Science Through the Lens of Kant’s Approach to Cognition

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Optogenetics reveals paradoxical network stabilizations in hippocampal CA1 and CA3

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Neural dynamic foundations of a theory of higher cognition: The case of grounding nested phrases.

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Intuitive Expertise in Moral Judgments

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Stress-Mediated Abnormalities in Regional Myocardial Wall Motion in Young Women with a History of Psychological Trauma

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A conceptual framework for empathy in humans and nonhuman animals

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The ALARM theory of consciousness: A two-level theory of phenomenal consciousness

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Mental Content

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Factivity variation in episodic memory reports

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Fictional emotions and emotional reactions to social robots as depictions of social agents

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Data Fusion for Audiovisual Speaker Localization: Extending Dynamic Stream Weights to the Spatial Domain

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Quo Vadis Psychiatry? Why It Is Time to Endorse Evolutionary Theory

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Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2-year-olds.

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The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts

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Stress research during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Working memory capacity of crows and monkeys arises from similar neuronal computations

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Exploring accidental triggers of smart speakers

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Mechanistic flexibility of the Retrosplenial Cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition

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Does separating intentionality from mental representation imply radical enactivism?

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Drohen mit dem Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz neue Menschenwürdeverletzungen?

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