Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Nov 17, 2021

01:56:00

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Bioelectric signals play a crucial role in development and regeneration, challenging the idea that genetic instructions alone determine anatomical outcomes.

Manipulating bioelectric communication can prevent tumor formation and override genetic defects, offering new avenues for cancer research.

Research on Xenobots showcases the remarkable plasticity of cellular collectives and challenges traditional notions of machine versus organism.

Collective cellular behaviors and decision-making in development involve perception and navigating morphospace, similar to visual perception in neural networks.

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Bioelectric states and their role in cell behavior

All cells in the body, not just neurons, have the ability to generate electrical potentials. These electrical states are important for cell communication and can influence cell behavior. Researchers have found that electrical networks in the body are involved in controlling behavior and can also play a role in development and regeneration. By understanding and manipulating these bioelectric states, scientists hope to achieve regenerative medicine outcomes, such as limb regeneration and tissue repair. These electrical networks can also be used to trigger specific developmental processes, like eye formation, by introducing specific electrical patterns in cells. This research challenges the idea that genetic instructions alone determine anatomical outcomes and highlights the importance of physiological processes in shaping development.

Is Consciousness a Synonym for Intelligence?

01:53

Is There a Zero on the Scale of Cognitive Creatures?

05:20

Is There Any Connection Between Psychodelics and Humans?

05:06

Introduction

3min

What Are Non Neural Bi Electric State and Their Relationship to Anatomical Results?

5min

Do You Know How to Disrupt Electrical Patterns in Cranio Facial Patterning?

2min

How to Induce Eyes in Embryos Using a Master Regulator

5min

Isn't It Okay if We Hold on That Cancer?

2min

Why Electric Signals Are Important in Development Regeneration?

4min

How to Understand Voltage Gradient?

3min

Is There Anything but Cancer?

3min

Can Oncogenes Be the Basis of Cancer?

3min

10.

Uncogen, Is a Mutation That Causes Cancer?

2min

11.

What's Your Work on the Concept of Identity?

2min

12.

How Do Cellular Collectives Decide What They're Going to Build?

3min

13.

How Do Cellular Collectives Make Decisions?

6min

14.

Xenebotik - The First Set of Zenebots

2min

15.

Is It Possible to Trigger Vim an Embryo?

3min

16.

Is There a Relationship Between Perception and Morpho Genetic Code?

4min

17.

The Problem of Sinescence, Is There a Bi Electric Component?

4min

18.

Is There a Lot of That Out There?

2min

19.

Xenebots

3min

20.

Is There a Connection Between the Microbiome and the Evolutionary Arms Race?

2min

21.

How to Decode a Voltage Dye?

3min

22.

Is There Any Connection Between Psychodelics and Humans?

5min

23.

Is There a Zero on the Scale of Cognitive Creatures?

5min

24.

Is Consciousness a Synonym for Intelligence?

2min

25.

Is the Cod Species Dependent, or Does It Actually Differ Based on People?

2min

26.

Morphos Suticals

2min

27.

How Do We Know if We're Learning the Algorithm?

2min

28.

Biological Self Organization and Emergence Is Proteo Algarithmic?

5min

29.

Is Regeneration in Mammals an Advantageous Trait for the Accumulation of Memory?

3min

30.

General Anaesthetics Are Gap Junctional Disruptors

5min

31.

Is There a Relationship Between Telemer and Aging?

2min

32.

How Your Thoughts Affect the Biphysical Processes of Your Body?

4min

33.

Anatomy Compiler

2min

34.

What's Next for You?

4min

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:35 An overview of Michael's results of code that isn't genomic

00:07:08 What's the standard view in development biology? (compare and contrast)

00:08:30 Regenerating limbs on animals which don't have regenerative properties (watch this first)

00:17:01 Why did it take so long to discover this momentous result?

00:20:42 Precisely what is voltage and what's being visualized?

00:23:23 DNA encodes hardware, and Michael discovered the software

00:27:22 Taking a cancerous cell and making it non-cancerous, and vice versa

00:32:23 What is the Self? (on identity and ego)

00:33:55 Living robots (xenobots)

00:44:50 The terms "alive" and "dead" are almost useless now

00:47:15 Perception and the morphogenetic code

00:51:06 Immortality is possible in flatworms... What about humans?

00:52:18 Jungian archetypes and their relation to the morphogenetic code

00:54:38 Curt believes this is Nobel prize winning work

00:55:53 [Rupert Sheldrake] Morphogenetic fields vs code

00:57:05 Engineering xenobots to clean up the environment

00:58:17 5G and its possible effects?

01:00:32 Microbiome and the non-neural electric imprints

01:02:34 How do you decode the code? What factors go are in play?

01:05:57 Psychedelics ⇒ change in morphogenetics?

01:07:13 The least action principle, intelligence, and the "intention" of particles

01:16:18 Studying consciousness is a first person activity, not a third person

01:18:13 [Faraz Honarvar] Does the code differ between people?

01:19:48 Morphoceuticals

01:22:03 [Nadia Markova] How does the ML algorithm work, specifically?

01:23:46 [Sam Thompson] Biological self-emergence is "proto-algorithmic"?

01:28:36 [Thane] Should we regenerate? Isn't it beneficial to NOT regenerate?

01:31:23 [Tom] Penrose's and Hameroff's Orch OR

01:35:59 [Mo Flow] Biological clock, aging, and David Sinclair

01:38:29 [Nate Grundmann] Placebo, healing yourself with your mind, and Joe Dispenza

01:44:53 Future projects of Prof. Michael Levin

01:46:01 Consciousness and developmental biology are related

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Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

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Deep dives

Bioelectric states and their role in cell behavior

The role of bioelectricity in cancer

Exploring the plasticity of cellular collectives

Perception and morphogenetic coding

The relationship between bi electrics, regenerative capacity, and aging

The impact of thoughts and intentionality on the body

Overlap with the field of quantum biology and the placebo effect

Connecting developmental biology with consciousness

Is Consciousness a Synonym for Intelligence?

Is There a Zero on the Scale of Cognitive Creatures?

Is There Any Connection Between Psychodelics and Humans?

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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

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Bioelectric states and their role in cell behavior

The role of bioelectricity in cancer

Exploring the plasticity of cellular collectives

Perception and morphogenetic coding

The relationship between bi electrics, regenerative capacity, and aging

The impact of thoughts and intentionality on the body

Overlap with the field of quantum biology and the placebo effect

Connecting developmental biology with consciousness

Is Consciousness a Synonym for Intelligence?

Is There a Zero on the Scale of Cognitive Creatures?

Is There Any Connection Between Psychodelics and Humans?

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