Michael Levin

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Michael Levin: Bioelectric Signals That Reprogram Living Organisms · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

Great, great question.

Yeah, absolutely.

And and we're working on this.

I mean, basically, after the individual cells uh disconnect from from the normal network, they will eventually end up uh connecting within themselves to form something else uh that again tries to reinflate that cognitive light cone that was shrunk to the level of a single cell.

And then they make a tumor and and then they compete with the rest of the body.

And so yeah, that that that process is absolutely a good target.

for um cancer therapies and and we're working on this stuff now.

Yeah, yeah, great, great, great question.

Uh and and I've a I I have a talk on my site that's about an hour just exactly on that on that question.

Uh to to to briefly sort of address it.

Yeah, the software hardware analogy is actually pretty good in this case.

The the genetics is what specifies the hardware available to cells.

So the genetics tells every cell what uh what ion channels it's going to have, what voltage transducing machinery it's going to have, and so on.

But everything that happens after that is

really a function of the uh physiological software, which is both bioelectrical, but also biochemical, biomechanical, and so on.

And we have a number of cases, and in this other this this lengthy talk, I go through all of them where you can actually see where uh the information diverges completely, where if you track the genetics or the transcriptomics or the proteomics, you get the wrong answer.

And I kind of showed you this all already.

And you know, in the case of the of the tadpole, when you look at the mutation, you'll you would make a prediction, oh, it's gonna have a brain defect.

And that's in fact not what happens in the cancer, in the cancer example, you would find

the oncogene uh mutation, you would say, okay, it's gonna have a tumor.

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