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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
Synthetic Biology - Are You Not Creating Alien Civilizations?
In some sense, with synthetic biology, are you not creating aliens? I absolutely think so because look, all of life, all of standard model systems are an end of one course of evolution on Earth. And trying to make conclusions about biology from looking at life on Earth is like testing your theory on the same data that generated it. So, we absolutely have to create novel examples that have no history on Earth. You know, as xenobots have no history of selection to be a good xenobot. It's not just have selection for various things, but the xenobot itself never existed before.
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