Control, energy and information
Goals cost energy. Control theory and thermodynamics give the hard limits — how fast a system must respond, how far from equilibrium it runs, how much of its budget goes to coordination. This is the physics underneath any claim that cells pursue goals.
Videos on this topic (newest first)
- 2026-11-06 — Super Turing Computing (Hava T. Siegelmann (guest talk to the Levin lab), with discussion with Michael Levin)
- 2026-10-28 — Physical Intelligence: thermodynamic roots of agency (Benjamin De Bari-Cheung (Thomas Jefferson University), guest talk with discussion)
- 2026-10-10 — Thermodynamics, Control, & Fundamental Niche (M. Kearney, I. Shames, R. Schouten, P. Egré, R. Evans (guests); Levin and lab in discussion)
Deeper concept pages
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