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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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What's Your Work on the Concept of Identity?

Your work has implications for what it means to have an identity. So right now are talking about cancer as if it's dissociating from the larger cell andother gap junctions, which you renose in your other work. And they effectively make an equivalent class between signals that i generate as a cell or my environment, or signals from connected cells. I'm unable to tell the difference between them, because i'm unable to tells the difference between myself and my neighbor. It's as if i'm identified with them.

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