Michael Levin
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1,198 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Why?
Because we understand that that uh the material that we're dealing with is is reprogrammable and living material is that and more.
So this is what we are made of.
We're made of individual cells.
So here's uh this this is a free living organism called the lacromeria, but it gives you an idea of what individual cells can do.
This thing is incredibly competent in its own little uh uh sphere of influence here.
There's no brain, there's no nervous system, uh, it handles all of its uh uh physiological, metabolic and so on and needs all in one cell.
And in fact, all of us were a single cell once.
And these cells did this amazing uh process of embryonic development where they became one of these complex organisms or even perhaps a human.
And in fact, even below the singular s uh the single cell level, j the molecular pathways within single cells already have learning capacity, right?
The different uh different signaling um
uh pathways and and g and uh gene regulatory network components come together into a collective intelligence that is able to form six different kinds of memories, including Pavlovian conditioning.
You don't need a brain, you don't need neurons, you don't even need the cell.
It's just the molecular pathway alone has this capacity.
And we are now uh creating uh devices that uh that we are using to train uh these pathways and and then the up there's many applications like drug conditioning and and
And so on.
So the idea here is that uh bodies uh are made of multiple levels, not just of different scales of organization, not just the nested dolls structurally, but actually uh every every level has its own
Capability of solving problems in different spaces.
So, so we're we're familiar with uh animals solving problems in the behavioral space, but but your your molecular networks, your cells, your tissues, all of them are uh constantly navigating these other problems.
And uh we are made of this this amazing multi-scale competency architecture.
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