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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If I say that in the molecular genetics department, it's like what what are you talking about?
Of course it's the genes and and then the the rest of it is, you know, sort of the f the fluff and the genes drive and then and then you know, but then they're like, well, yeah, all that you know, the cells are are similar and whatnot.
So so it's like that same that same idea that that a group of cells is is uh reprogrammable with respect to what it's going to do and that and that it um you know if I talk about let's say the the pattern memory and the two headed plenary and the fact that in they
They had a they had a physiological experience that permanently altered how those cells are going to behave in the future.
There's nothing wrong with the genetics.
The genetics haven't been touched.
Again, into neuroscience, yeah of course, because we we we know you don't need to change your genome to learn new things if you're a brain, that's obvious.
But in the in the you know, in the molecular genetics world, that's completely bizarre.
So
Yeah.
Yeah.
And in fact, the whole the whole developmental thing is is so important.
I was gonna I uh uh uh mention this as well as far in terms of these misconceptions, right?
And the things that there's this really firm idea in a lot of people that we have uh a a a proper um cognitive human being, and then there are physical objects.
And then once you start sort of poking into that, like how did you get here?
You know you were a single cell.
wants, right, both evolutionarily and developmentally.
you were a single cell that probably most people will say that it's, you know, well described by chemistry and physics and and then most people, not me, but most people will look at a single cell and say that, okay, that this is this cannot be a cognitive system.
This is just, you know, it's a it's a it's a f it's a chemical machine or or, you know, biochemical machine.
But the facts of developmental biology are that there is no magic lightning flash that sort of says, okay, boom, now you've gone from from the land of of of physics and chemistry and now
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