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Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research

Curt Jaimungal

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Brain and nervesCancerNeuroscienceCells and moleculesCancer biology

Biologist Michael Levin discusses developmental biology, bioelectricity, cellular intelligence, and how these concepts relate to cancer research and consciousness.

Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard. Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Join TOEmail at curtjaimungal.org Thanks to Ekkolapto! Ekkolapto is thinkubator that creates ecosystems for the most creatively intelligent to discuss their most unorthodox, interdisciplinary ideas to a critically receptive audience. Visit Ekkolapto at ekkolapto.org Links Mentioned: Michael’s paper on cognition - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935032/pdf/rstb.2019.0750.… Gabriele Carcassi Video - youtube.com/watch?v=9VNW7NHwnuM Michael Levin’s blog post on advice - thoughtforms.life/what-advice-do-i-give-to-my-students/ TOE ep with Levin, Tung and Gumuskaya - youtube.com/watch?v=hG6GIzNM0aM TOE ep with Levin - youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc TOE ep with Bach and Levin - youtube.com/watch?v=kgMFnfB5E_A TOE ep with Lang, Friston and Levin - youtube.com/watch?v=J6eJ44Jq_pw TOE ep with Iain McGilchrist - youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4 Timestamps: - Intro - Biggest Myths of Biology - Tying Michael's Work Together - What Are Humans? - Basal Cognition - Conscious Agents - Bioelectricity and Cancer - Support TOE Support TOE: - Patreon: patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - PayPal: tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - TOE Merch: tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Follow TOE: - NEW Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: curtjaimungal.org - Instagram: instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod - TikTok: tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_ - Twitter: twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-j… - Pandora: pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Join this channel to get access to perks: youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join #science #biology

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What people say. Recommended as a fascinating and mind-blowing interview about bioelectricity and cellular intelligence.

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For those interested in more details and quite mind blowing examples, here is a fascinating interview with Michael Levin (one of the researchers mentioned in the article). link to this video Start at 1:19:11, the stuff before is him talking about biology, but from an intelligence perspective. After this time stamp is his retrospective on his bioelectricity research over the years, showing also examples of how they got a frog embryo to produce eyes, and many more things.
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