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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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How to Induce Eyes in Embryos Using a Master Regulator

The eye is constructed from cells that we're going to be gut. This is remarkable, because if you look at the em a developmental biology text books, they say that cells outside of the anterior and irected room are not competent to become eyes. The information content that we provide by putting in this channel is extremely low. We don't micro specify the details of how to make an eye. It's a trigger for a cascade that the animal already knows how to do. Once you know how to do something, you can reuse it in other places. And so this third part is cool because well, the second part is its modularity. Thingsre a way too complex for us to

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