Michael Levin

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Mind-Body Solution with Dr Tevin Naidu · Terrence Deacon & Michael Levin: What is Life? Complexity, Cognition & the Origin of Purpose · 9 May 2025 podcast

These are these are kind of symmetrical uh views that uh that we're that we have here.

Yeah, yeah, that's a very, very good point.

So um so let me let me talk about this uh this this uh business a little bit.

And uh I I'll just preface uh preface it by saying that it is absolutely an interpretation and decoding process.

I'm not saying that there is a pre-formed map that sits there as it is.

However, um if you zoom into the center of that bow tie, if you take if you take a slice of it, there are time periods where the bioelectric pattern

acts as as if it was a map.

And I'll just give you a simple example, a couple of simple examples.

Um and it's not just plenaria.

We've done this in in in in fro in frog and we're now doing this in mice.

Uh this is, you know, this is this is I think a general thing.

So so let me let me just describe um

uh what what we were looking for.

In uh the the what what what I was looking for is a physical encoding of a set point for this homeostatic process.

So so the thing about planaria and and and you you know maybe so sometimes I think that all development, like even mammals, you know,

Half of us can regenerate an entire body from one cell, right?

That's a that's a kind of regenerative process.

You're down to one cell and you can sort of reinflate the back into the body, right?

So, and we know that all of these systems will work like hell to get to where they're going, even if you perturb them.

You can cut them into pieces, you can move things around, we can, we can make Picasso the frogs where everything's in the wrong place and and they'll still kind of come go back to where they need to go.

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