Michael Levin
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1,198 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Michael Levin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so so I see I see two uh okay uh two two aspects to this.
One is the um sort of in painting idea where it's it's gaps with you know sort of they're they're more minor in a way because they're within uh an existing structure and and you know you sort of fill in the things you don't know, but overall it's within a structure.
And then and then what we see often in the biology is a kind of outpainting.
Where you're going further into areas where the past uh has not uh has not prepared you for, right?
And and just as a the uh you know as a simple example, um uh the anthrobots, you know, we recently, right, so so these are these these self-multil uh little uh creatures that are formed from human um tracheal samples.
They self-assemble.
We we recently um uh studied their uh uh transcriptome.
And we found out that about half of the genes in the human genome are differentially expressed in these anthrobots.
And so we haven't touched the genome.
There are no synthetic biology circuits.
There are no nanomaterials.
There are no weird drugs.
It's just they have a new lifestyle, a new environment, and they have uh they have radically altered uh the way that they express the genes that they've been that they've been given from their past experience as human embryos and then and then humans.
And the Xenobots too.
There's some there's some amazing stuff that we fished out out of novel transcriptional um motifs that is that that Xenobots uh express now in their new lifestyle that actually allow us to to communicate with them in a in a new way.
This will all be forthcoming shortly.
And so so just just you know, this idea that that uh there's there's the in painting filling in of gaps where your environment is in small ways different than the
than what you knew, but basically the old tricks still work.
And then there seems to be this this is what I meant by the by the creative, right?
It's that you have to go beyond what you've already seen and use the affordances you have, the things that the genome does give you in novel ways for a new lifestyle that is is clearly not random, clearly not uh just uh trial and error.
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