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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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The Origin of Selfhood starting from Cells
The origin of selfhood is in the formation of a collective, says evolutionary biologist Michael Bociurkiw. A region of cells organizes into a collective that will have goals - and individual cells don't know what an eye is or how many eyes they should have. The establishment of that boundary with its own ability to pursue certain goals, that's the origin of self-determination for evolution," he says.
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