Michael Levin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I think the backbone of biology and things we call life are just systems that are very good at scaling up the cognitive properties of their parts into bigger and bigger light cones.
And so uh cognitive light cones.
And so what we are going to get, it's natural that the that the theories, uh the unified theories of physics uh uh uh come out in in in numbers or various other uh uh I'm not even sure that's true anymore, but the but various other kinds of uh constructs.
The the overall theory of biology is going to be all around goals, memories, preferences, and uh basically terms that you would recognize from from psychology and
behavior science.
And that's because uh the fundamental interesting thing about life is not any of the uh dynamics that are currently studied uh you know in chemistry and so on.
It's the it's it's the problem it's the creative problem solving of the material.
And it starts very early on.
It goes below the single cell level and it you don't even need cells for it.
But the story of life is the story of scaling of intelligence.
And so that that that theory
is uh this is this is why we use bioelectricity uh because it's an interface to one uh one way to demonstrate what i'm what I'm talking about.
It's a convenient interface to the intelligence of life.
That's it that's its only goal, uh its only uh role here.
And
I think I think the uh the theory of biology is going to be the th uh basically a theory of of of intelligence.
And and it's already begun.
This is this is not um s you know a science fiction uh pipe dream.
th th th those theories are exactly what enable us to regenerate the limbs, normalize tumors, repair birth defects and so on.
It's precisely because because that that is is so that that that way of seeing the biological material is is fruitful and uh and and and opens new avenues in therapeutics.
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