Michael Levin

Like, what's really a neuron?

And yes, if you're in neurobiology 101, of course, you just say, look, these are what neurons look like.

Let's just study the neuroanatomy and we're done.

But if you really want to understand what's going on, well, neurons develop from other types of cells.

And that was a slow and gradual process.

And most of the cells in your body do the things that neurons do.

So what really is a neuron, right?

So once you start scratching this, this happens.

And

I have some things that I think are coming out of our lab and others that are, I think, very interesting about the origin of life.

But I don't think it's about finding that one boom like this is.

Yeah, there are innovations, right?

There are innovations that allow you to scale in an amazing way, for sure.

And there are lots of people that study those, right?

So things that thermodynamic kind of metabolic things and all kinds of architectures and so on.

But I don't think it's about finding a line.

I think it's about finding a scaling process.

Let me make the opposite argument.

They're absolutely useful.

They're useful specifically when you want to gloss over certain things.