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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
General Anaesthetics Are Gap Junctional Disruptors
Anaesthesia is one of the most profound tools we have to steady actual consciousness. Most general anaesthetics are gap junctional disruptors, disrupting electrical networks that enable body cells to form networks. It makes total sense that if we want to turn a plinerian itt into the head of make its head, turn its head into the head of a different species of plenarian,. just what we use a general anaesthetic called octinal it's the exact same thing. And then youl let the connections reform and hope everything comes back to how it was. The amazing thing about general anaesthetic is that any of us ever come back from it being the same person. Some
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