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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Can Oncogenes Be the Basis of Cancer?

In computer siense, we takeit. Evolution takes advantage of it in making nerants. So so you can inject a human oncagine which is going to form a tumor in a tadpole. And sure enough, we made metostatic, metostatic melanoma in tadpoles. That tells you that there doesn't have to be anything wrong with a hardware in order to have cancer. It you can be a purely physiological phenomenon. Tats, that'sa the nrneura like processing,. because you have individual nurons, which are cells, but you connect them together into a network and this amazing computation starts to take place. You know, you as

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