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Bioelectric Networks & Cellular Motivations - Dr. Michael Levin, Synthetic Biologist, Tufts Univ.

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The End Frontier Is the Ability to Understand and Communicate

I was thinking about these, what do you call them, robot organs? Don't they need to be able to integrate into that sense of self as well? They need to communicate in such a way that they understand that this is their self now. I mean... Yeah, I mean it's an interesting question. We like to draw boundaries around the organism so that you say, okay, here's a human and right at the sort of at the edge of their skin is where the body stops. But if you think about the internal organs, what's their external environment? As far as your kidneys concerned, the cells sitting next to it, it's an external environment. So yes, it

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