Michael Levin
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Yeah, yeah.
I mean, those refer to different types of interventions in the regenerative medicine space.
So a morphoceutical is something that it's a kind of intervention that really targets the cell's
decision-making process about what they're going to build.
And ionosteuticals are like that, but more focused specifically on the bioelectrics.
I mean, there's also, of course, biochemical, biomechanical, who knows what else, you know, maybe optical kinds of signaling systems there as well.
Target morphology is interesting.
It really, it's designed to capture this idea that
it's not just feed forward emergence.
And oftentimes in biology, I mean, of course that happens too, but, but in many cases in biology, the system is specifically working towards a target in anatomical morphous space, right?
It's a, it's a navigation task, really.
These kinds of problem solving can be, you know, formalized as navigation tasks and that they're really going towards a particular region.
How do you know?
Because you deviate them and then they go back.
Boy, it's dangerous to give advice because things change so fast.
But one central thing I can say.
Moving up and through academia and whatnot, you will be surrounded by really smart people.
And what you need to do is be very careful at distinguishing specific critique versus kind of meta advice.
And what I mean by that is...
If somebody really smart and successful and obviously competent is giving you specific critiques on what you've done, that's gold.