Michael Levin

It's alignment of everybody to the same goal through this very dumb, simple stress sharing thing.

Via leaky stress.

Leaky stress, right?

So there's another one.

There's another one which I call memory anonymization.

So imagine here are two cells and imagine something happens to this cell and it sends a signal over to this cell.

Traditionally, you send a signal over, this cell receives it, it's very clear that it came from outside.

So this cell can do many things.

It could ignore it, it could take on the information, it could just ignore it, it could reinterpret, it could do whatever.

But it's very clear that came from outside.

Now imagine the kind of thing that we study, which is called gap junctions.

These are electrical synapses that could directly link the internal milieus of two cells.

If something happens to this cell, let's say it gets poked and there's a calcium spike or something,

That propagates through the gap junction here.

This cell now has the same information, but this cell has no idea.

Wait a minute, is that my memory or is that his memory?

Because it's the same, right?

It's the same components.

And so what you're able to do now is to have a mind meld.

You can have a mind meld between the two cells where nobody's quite sure whose memory it is.