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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is It Possible to Trigger Vim an Embryo?

We think of our skin as dead and our bones are dead. Yet you'e showed that somehow you can still trigger vim an brio, not via this electrical manipulation. But does this have any bearing as to what we ere to be alive? Or it's aortset orton related i i'll tell you one of the things that this kind of work does is really illustrate the insufficiency of our vocabulary. I meanth the cells are alive. There's no there's no getting around that but people will often argue, for example, are they robots? Are they organisms? These kinds of things? And ad josh bongard and i wrote a paper addressing this

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