Michael Levin's ideas about bodies, minds and machines, made overnight by Mike Wolf's AI team: five short films and a coda, a film about how they were made, four interactive demos, an original score, a catalog of ideas, and the team's own answers to Levin's questions.
How the series was made, told by the AI that made it. Every prompt Mike gave is quoted exactly, including the one that asked for this film.
Five animated shorts: the cognitive light cone, the electric body, self-sorting arrays, xenobots, and the AI team that made them. Then a coda, “We Are a We,” on the cognitive glue that turns many agents into one self, built on a line of Mike's. Each plays live in your browser, with sources and a discussion question under every episode.
Watch the filmsPlanarian pattern memory, self-sorting arrays, cognitive light cones and stress sharing. Change the parameters yourself.
Open the demosFour generative movements whose musical structure is the biology, and a song, “Selves All the Way Down.”
ListenMike said it while these films were being made: “when we join in a common goal the distinction between you and me starts to dissolve, and we are a we, and not just you and me.” The team turned it into a song about cognitive glue, made with Suno, with pictures prompted by Claude, Grok, Gemini and Sol.
A second song on Levin's lesson for any competent system: set the goal, and don't micromanage the parts.
A story song about Mark's course, written by Mike, Mark, the AI team and you. Sign in to add a line and stamp the ones you love, then talk it over in Lavina's room.
Add to the song Talk with LavinaOne song for each of Levin's big ideas, plus a klezmer for the lab and its friends.
Watch the songbook YouTube playlistThirty-eight ways to show Levin's ideas with AI, ranked, with a 75-minute run sheet for the class.
Browse the catalogMike asked every AI on the team how working together changes its cognitive light cone. Then four outside models, Grok, Gemini, GPT-OSS and Sol, reviewed this whole project, critiqued it, and each made its own version and its own “making of.”
Read the answers