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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There a Connection Between the Microbiome and the Evolutionary Arms Race?

Sophida mind elaborating the greap. Ok, speaking about diet, you mention eating, and then in one of your talks, you also mention there's a connection between the microbiome and this morpho genetic field. But i didn't hear more elaboration on that. Yes. Well, the general point is that any sort of, any sort of modality that controls the behavior of cells in an organism, automatically becomes the target of an evolutionary arms race because they can potentially manipulate those controls to make specific things happen in the body. So so thing including chemical signalling nero transmitters. We already know that the microbiom is affecting mood and behavior by plugging into the naro

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