Michael Levin: The Morphogenetic Code That Governs All Life
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Show Notes
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:03:35 - An overview of Michael's results of code that isn't genomic
- 00:07:08 - What's the standard view in development biology? (compare and contrast)
- 00:08:30 - Regenerating limbs on animals which don't have regenerative properties (watch this first)
- 00:17:01 - Why did it take so long to discover this momentous result?
- 00:20:42 - Precisely what is voltage and what's being visualized?
- 00:23:23 - DNA encodes hardware, and Michael discovered the software
- 00:27:22 - Taking a cancerous cell and making it non-cancerous, and vice versa
- 00:32:23 - What is the Self? (on identity and ego)
- 00:33:55 - Living robots (xenobots)
- 00:44:50 - The terms "alive" and "dead" are almost useless now
- 00:47:15 - Perception and the morphogenetic code
- 00:51:06 - Immortality is possible in flatworms... What about humans?
- 00:52:18 - Jungian archetypes and their relation to the morphogenetic code
- 00:54:38 - Curt believes this is Nobel prize winning work
- 00:55:53 - [Rupert Sheldrake] Morphogenetic fields vs code
- 00:57:05 - Engineering xenobots to clean up the environment
- 00:58:17 - 5G and its possible effects?
- 01:00:32 - Microbiome and the non-neural electric imprints
- 01:02:34 - How do you decode the code? What factors go are in play?
- 01:05:57 - Psychedelics ⇒ change in morphogenetics?
- 01:07:13 - The least action principle, intelligence, and the "intention" of particles
- 01:16:18 - Studying consciousness is a first person activity, not a third person
- 01:18:13 - [Faraz Honarvar] Does the code differ between people?
- 01:19:48 - Morphoceuticals
- 01:22:03 - [Nadia Markova] How does the ML algorithm work, specifically?
- 01:23:46 - [Sam Thompson] Biological self-emergence is "proto-algorithmic"?
- 01:28:36 - [Thane] Should we regenerate? Isn't it beneficial to NOT regenerate?
- 01:31:23 - [Tom] Penrose's and Hameroff's Orch OR
- 01:35:59 - [Mo Flow] Biological clock, aging, and David Sinclair
- 01:38:29 - [Nate Grundmann] Placebo, healing yourself with your mind, and Joe Dispenza
- 01:44:53 - Future projects of Prof. Michael Levin
- 01:46:01 - Consciousness and developmental biology are related
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