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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Do You Know How to Disrupt Electrical Patterns in Cranio Facial Patterning?

In the early embryo as it's putting its face together, for example, you will see something we call the electric face. This was discovered in work with my colleague danny adams. And and it raised the obvious, the obvious question, which is that if that pattern is instructive, then you ought to be able to do two things. You should be able to mess it up and thus disrupt an electrical pattern and thus get defects in cranio facial patterning. And certainly you can do that. There are even human channel opathies where humans have ations and ion channels that give them craneo facial birth defects and defects of limb and brain and other things. So thatthat

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