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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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How Do Cellular Collectives Decide What They're Going to Build?

Amsoso, you're talking about our arxen bots, i think. And the question wast the question that we're interested in addressing is basically this am, where do anatomical goals come from? In order to illustrate why that's even a good question, i want to talk about planaria for just a momentd then you'll see whythi this is important for the xenobats. The actual question of how do cellular collectives decide what they're going to build, and when do they stop building, that's very much an open questionan so one way you can see how far we are away from a good understanding of this was by doing a simple experiment with flatworms

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