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151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis
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Behavior, Adaptation, and Navigating High Dimensional Spaces
The ability to navigate through a high-dimensional space is crucial for organisms facing novel challenges. This is exemplified in a study where flowers exposed to barium explode, but then regenerate new, adapted heads. Transcriptional profiling revealed only a small number of different genes between normal and adapted heads, highlighting the challenge of regulating the right genes in a complex space. The author suggests that our ability to recognize intelligence is optimized for objects in three-dimensional space, but if we had a sense of our internal chemistry, we would better understand the intelligence of our organs and their adaptation to disruptions in physiological space.
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