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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Biological Computation's Evolution

  • Biological electrical networks initially controlled metabolic, physiological, and transcriptional processes.
  • Later, these networks guided morphogenesis (anatomical shape changes) and eventually behavior in 3D space.
  • DNA specifies cellular hardware (protein structure), which has computational capacity and is reprogrammable.
  • A key 'software' layer of physiological processes links the genome's hardware to anatomical outcomes and homeostasis.
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