Michael Levin: The Morphogenetic Code That Governs All Life

I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Michael Levin explores the morphogenetic code that governs development, regeneration, and consciousness, highlighting groundbreaking experiments with xenobots and cellular reprogramming. The conversation also tackles the implications for health, identity, and future technologies.0:00 Intro3:35 Michael's results of code that isn't genomic7:08 What's the standard view in development biology? (compare and contrast)8:30 Regenerating limbs on animals which don't have regenerative properties (watch this first)17:01 Why did it take so long to discover this momentous result?20:42 Precisely what is voltage and what's being visualized?23:23 DNA encodes hardware, and Michael discovered the software27:22 Taking a cancerous cell and making it non-cancerous, and vice versa32:23 What is the Self? (on identity and ego)33:55 Living robots (xenobots)44:50 The terms "alive" and "dead" are almost useless now47:15 Perception and the morphogenetic code51:06 Immortality is possible in flatworms... What about humans?52:18 Jungian archetypes and their relation to the morphogenetic code54:38 Curt believes this is Nobel prize winning work55:53 [Rupert Sheldrake] Morphogenetic fields vs code57:05 Engineering xenobots to clean up the environment58:17 5G and its possible effects?1:00 32 Microbiome and the non-neural electric imprints1:02 34 How do you decode the code? What factors go are in play?1:05 57 Psychedelics ⇒ change in morphogenetics?1:07 13 The least action principle, intelligence, and the "intention" of particles1:16 18 Studying consciousness is a first person activity, not a third person1:18 13 [Faraz Honarvar] Does the code differ between people?1:19 48 Morphoceuticals1:22 03 [Nadia Markova] How does the ML algorithm work, specifically?1:23 46 [Sam Thompson] Biological self-emergence is "proto-algorithmic"?1:28 36 [Thane] Should we regenerate? Isn't it beneficial to NOT regenerate?1:31 23 [Tom] Penrose's and Hameroff's Orch OR1:35 59 [Mo Flow] Biological clock, aging, and David Sinclair1:38 29 [Nate Grundmann] Placebo, healing yourself with your mind, and Joe Dispenza1:44 53 Future projects of Prof. Michael Levin1:46 01 Consciousness and developmental biology are relatedSPONSORS:RESOURCES:- YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc- Merch (until end of Oct 2021): https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices