Collective intelligence of cells
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This episode is with Michael Levin.He is a Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University. His work on left-right asymmetric body structures is on Nature’s list of 100 Milestones of Developmental Biology of the Century.Here we talk about Life as an information, deterministic view of life, multi-cellularity, two headed flatworms Picasso frogs, bio-electricity and collective intelligence of cells.
About the guest
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:23 Brief overview of Mike's work
00:03:42 What is life?
00:07:06 Life as an information
00:11:10 Transitions in the complexity of the system
00:15:26 Continuum systems in biology
00:19:42 Understanding cognition
00:23:07 Metaphors in science
00:24:09 Evolution and selection on a continuum system
00:33:25 Genomes and development of an organism
00:38:26 Software and hardware in biology
00:40:19 Plasticity in biology
00:41:34 Complexity and intelligence
00:45:00 Picasso frogs
00:48:07 Bio-electricity
00:54:20 Using bio-electricity to change the development of an organism
00:57:13 Ions and development of an organism
00:59:50 Bio-electric patterns for different organs
01:00:41 Meaning of bio-electric pattern
01:03:10 Future of bio-electric pattern
01:09:58 How to change bio-electric pattern?
01:11:28 Xenobots
01:14:58 Xenobots architecture
01:16:36 Cellular regeneration
01:19:03 Major driver for the cellular regeneration
01:19:44 Bio-electricity, Xenobots, future of biology and regenerative medicine
01:21:38 Thank you!