Media
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podcasts & video interviews
Discussion with Michael Johnson 1
Thoughtforms Life Podcast / Michael Levin
A focused conversation on vasocomputation, vascular tension as priors, trauma, fascia, and bodywide bioelectric field architecture.
talks & presentations
The games of life
Triplicate / AI x Neuro: Mindful Alignment
A presentation introducing vasocomputation and its implications for neuroscience, contemplative practice, and embodied cognition.
podcasts & video interviews
The vasculature that thinks
Friends of Analogue
A long-form conversation introducing vasocomputation and the possibility that the vascular system plays an active computational role.
podcasts & video interviews
Reimagining trauma and neuroscience
The Inner Frontier with Jonny Miller / Nervous System Mastery
A conversation on trauma, meditation, and the latch hypothesis: a proposed vascular mechanism for persistent embodied patterns.
podcasts & video interviews
Symmetry, beauty, and the shape of consciousness
The Trajectory / Worthy Successor
A wide-ranging conversation on posthuman sentience, physicalism, beauty, symmetry, and the future of consciousness.
Discussion with Michael Johnson 2
Thoughtforms Life Podcast / Michael Levin
A conversation on consciousness at and below the cellular level, cells as qualia pixels, Platonic spaces, bioelectric symmetry breaking, structured water, and intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation.
The vasculature that thinks
Friends of Analogue
A long-form conversation introducing vasocomputation and the possibility that the vascular system plays an active computational role.
Discussion with Michael Johnson 1
Thoughtforms Life Podcast / Michael Levin
A focused conversation on vasocomputation, vascular tension as priors, trauma, fascia, and bodywide bioelectric field architecture.
Reimagining trauma and neuroscience
The Inner Frontier with Jonny Miller / Nervous System Mastery
A conversation on trauma, meditation, and the latch hypothesis: a proposed vascular mechanism for persistent embodied patterns.
Jhanas, awakening and vasocomputation
The Metagame
A conversation on jhanas, awakening, trauma release, self-generated bliss, and the role of the vascular system in contemplative transformation.
Tanha with neuroscientist Michael Johnson
Imagine an Apple
A compact interview on tanha, inner experience, autism, stress, tension, and vasocomputation.
A conversation on formalizing consciousness, Principia Qualia, and the Symmetry Theory of Valence.
Shinzen Young interview: stress, equanimity, & sensory clarity
Supertribe retreat
Transcript and audio of a conversation with meditation teacher Shinzen Young on stress, equanimity, sensory clarity, and mindfulness practice.
Conscious black holes and the qualia of infinity
Waking Cosmos / Origins of Consciousness
An interview on mapping the landscape of mind, qualia formalism, consciousness in cosmological systems, and the future of minds in the universe.
text interviews
What is more real, beauty or my shoes?
Thoughts on Evolutions / Beata Grobenski
A long-form text interview on beauty, vasocomputation, consciousness, symmetry, memory, and phenomenology.
press coverage
Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
WIRED · Kylie Robison
Coverage of the Worthy Successor symposium, including Michael Edward Johnson’s argument that consciousness is the home of value and that building AI without understanding it risks either creating suffering or trusting systems without experience.
talks & presentations
The games of life
Triplicate / AI x Neuro: Mindful Alignment
A presentation introducing vasocomputation and its implications for neuroscience, contemplative practice, and embodied cognition.
Neurotech as philosophy about what we are: five models
Protocol Labs / LabWeek Field Building
A LabWeek talk on neurotechnology as applied philosophy, pre-paradigmatic neuroscience, and bioelectric approaches to medicine.
Why neurotech is maybe the only thing that matters
ZuConnect Istanbul / StreamETH
Neurotechnology’s relevance to AI safety and progress.
A talk on the limits of utility-function language in AI alignment and the need for a phenomenology-grounded science of consciousness.
The neuroscience of meditation
Meditation & Science Jam 2019
A presentation connecting predictive coding, connectome-specific harmonic waves, and neural annealing to meditation.
Media appearance transcripts
Download transcripts of Michael Edward Johnson’s media appearances as Markdown (.zip)