Michael Levin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And again, you'd be wrong because the the genetics uh gives you some information and for certain things that's sufficient, but for many things, especially these kind of um uh anatomical outcomes, uh looking at the hardware is just not at all sufficient.
Yeah, thank thank you.
That's that's a that's a very good question.
Uh let let's let me let me clarify.
Um
Bi bioelectricity is only interesting because it happens to be the cognitive glue that enables the scaling of intelligence.
Forming into bioelectrical networks is how the tiny little goals of single cells, metabolic goals and uh pr you know, proliferative goals and so on, are scaled up into grandiose goals like building a limb or a face and and and so on.
It is the it is the cognitive glue.
That's that's why it's interesting.
It's otherwise not not uh
um, you know, but special by itself.
But it happens to be very convenient and that's what evolution has chosen.
Uh I would claim, and so this is a controversial claim.
This is not the mainstream view, so take this with whatever grain of salt you want, but here's here's my claim.
Uh the there there the I I I think there is a general theory of biology that is being developed now.
I mean, obvious this is what we're trying to do and some other people.
And that theory is going to be in the shape of things familiar to behavior science, not things familiar to physics and chemistry.
I don't think you should be looking for equations.
I don't think you should be looking for um emergence, uh, complexity theory, a dynamic.
Dynamical systems theory, these are all nice, but but these are not the backbone of biology.
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