BIO ELECTRIC BODIES - Michael Levin Phd.
Biologist Michael Levin Phd. generously contributed a talk to SEMF's 2022 Spacious Spatiality, which is shared here for One Social members. This is the emerging science that Tuft University's Michael Levin Phd. has discovered to radically rethink evolution and how cells have intelligence, and it is within these electrical blueprints that life is orchestrated. We here at One Social find this particularly fascinating because this work proves that there is a Telos, or goal-oriented purpose, that disproves the evolution theory that evolution is random, when in fact cells have a collective intelligence with a purpose to form. This new research and evidence backs up what metaphysicians have known as well as ancient adepts, such as the Ancient Egyptians, who understood the natural laws of pure nature and the telos that begins before form governed by (AKA Neter). To learn more about how our bodies are truley electric we have posted a an article in One Social News here :
Talk kindly contributed by Michael Levin Phd. in SEMF's 2022 Spacious Spatiality https://semf.org.es/spatiality
TALK ABSTRACT Life was solving problems in metabolic, genetic, physiological, and anatomical spaces long before brains and nervous systems appeared. In this talk, I will describe remarkable capabilities of cell groups as they create, repair, and remodel complex anatomies. Anatomical homeostasis reveals that groups of cells are collective intelligences; their cognitive medium is the same as that of the human mind: electrical signals propagating in cell networks. I will explain non-neural bioelectricity and the tools we use to track the basal cognition of cells and tissues and control their function for applications in regenerative medicine. I will conclude with a discussion of our framework based on evolutionary scaling of intelligence by pivoting conserved mechanisms that allow agents, whether designed or evolved, to navigate complex problem spaces.
read our One Social blog on Michael Levin's groundbreaking work at : http://onesocial.live/news/46/human-bodies-are-electric-bodies-controlling-electric-signals-in-body-can-h/
TALK MATERIALS · The Electrical Blueprints that Orchestrate Life (TED Talk): https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_levin_the_electrical_blueprints_that_orchestrate_life · Michael Levin's interviews and presentations: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/presentations/ · Michael Levin's publications: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/publications/ · The Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms (ICDO): https://icdorgs.org/
MICHAEL LEVIN
Department of Biology, Tufts University: https://as.tufts.edu/biology Tufts University profile: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/ Wyss Institute profile: https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/associate-faculty/michael-levin-ph-d/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levin_(biologist) Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=luouyakAAAAJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmichaellevin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-levin-b0983a6/
SEMF NETWORKS
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 INTRODUCTION
00:01:27 All intelligence is collective intelligence
00:03:45 Main points of the talk
00:04:32 Single cell spatial competencies
00:06:19 Outline of the talk
00:06:46 PLASTICITY
00:08:18 Planarian memories survive brain regeneration
00:09:29 Tadpoles can see with artificially implanted eyes
00:10:42 Biological systems have competency in different scales and spaces
00:12:56 Planaria regenerates head with new adaptive gene expression
00:15:06 Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere
00:16:34
INTELLIGENT NAVIGATION IN MORPHOSPACE
00:16:34 Where are anatomy and shape encoded in biology?
00:17:55 Biomedical endgame: anatomical compiler
00:19:01 Unpredictability of anatomy of chimeric species: frogolotls
00:19:59 Hardware and software: analogy between nowadays biology and 40s-50s computer science
00:21:15 What is morphospace?
00:23:26 Examples of natural regeneration
00:25:15 Cells change molecular mechanisms to adapt shape to artifical constraints
00:27:05 Induced frog leg regenration takes different path than default limb development
00:28:08 Facial mispatterning in tadpoles still ends in normal frog faces
00:29:36 Feedback loops in pattern homeostasis and goal-directedness
00:31:34 BIOELECTRICITY
00:31:38 Usual example of bioelectricity explaining goal-directedness: the brain
00:32:49 Generalizing: non-brain tissues also encode goals through bioelectricity
00:34:36 Reading and writing electrical information in non-brain tissues
00:35:29 Reading #1: “electric face” before face development
00:36:45 Reading #2: electric signature before tumor development
00:37:12 Writing electrical information in non-brain tissues using neuroscience tools
00:38:12 Writing #1: inducing voltage patterns that develop organs and limbs
00:40:16 Writing #2: inducing limb regeneration
00:42:08 Writing #3: inducing anatomical memory that produces two-headed planaria when injured
00:47:01 Writing #4: inducing shape changes
00:48:36 Developing quantitative, predictive models
00:49:27 Writing #5: correcting brain defects using model predictions
00:51:14 Electroceutical drugs
00:52:09
TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO MIND EVERYWHERE
00:52:18 Different scales of biological systems have different goals
00:55:00 Potential application to reverse cancer
00:55:48 Diversity of intelligences
00:57:16 Multi-scale control and up-scaling goals across spaces
00:59:01 Behavior of skin cells clusters when isolated: xenobots
01:07:15 Overview of the Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere
01:08:00 The space of intelligent agents and its implications for ethics