Podchaser Logo
Home
Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Released Wednesday, 17th November 2021
Good episode? Give it some love!
Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Wednesday, 17th November 2021
Good episode? Give it some love!
Rate Episode

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc


Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://www.algo.com/. 


Merch (until end of Oct 2021): https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch

Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal

Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE

PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt

Discord Invite: 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

Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything


TIMESTAMPS:

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


* * *


Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

Show More
Rate

Join Podchaser to...

  • Rate podcasts and episodes
  • Follow podcasts and creators
  • Create podcast and episode lists
  • & much more

Episode Tags

Do you host or manage this podcast?
Claim and edit this page to your liking.
,

Unlock more with Podchaser Pro

  • Audience Insights
  • Contact Information
  • Demographics
  • Charts
  • Sponsor History
  • and More!
Pro Features