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Engineering Life And Consciousness. | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #42

The Escaped Sapiens Podcast

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Is There a Link Between Immortality and Regeneration?

There are some very regenerative organisms that do have a lifespan limit. Plenary, for sure, is an absolute masters at maintaining the information needed to specify a new worm from a pile of cells. But then they also have the ability to produce these new healthy cells in perpetuity. So they seem to have both. And I think in principle, if we were to solve the regeneration problem, I think we would have many of the answers to degenerative disease, aging, and so on.

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