Michael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives

[@SS369]

I'm a simple man... I see Michael Levin and I click. This person is, in my opinion, on the verge of making an insanely impactful advancement in biology. Absolutely love him and his work! What a time we live in!

[@johnmacbride900]

Yep, same here, been watching his lectures all week. Almost made the same comment. Just read his New Yorker article, which was great. His work is gonna become real well known soon.

[@SS369]

@@johnmacbride900 The only part I partly disagree with you about is that his work is gonna be know soon, but that may be biased by my definition of soon. Look at what is happening around the past 2 years... Forget about political agendas, the censorship is painfully obvious. The financial incentive in it is even more so. This technology is even more impactful than blockchain and cryptocurrencies for the financial market, and that is literally borderline impossible to achieve. He has been vocal about this technology for years and it's literally still getting no attention whatsoever.. Complete media blackout except a few articles. In 5-10 years it will likely be the norm

[@seditt5146]

@@SS369 My biggest fear is this fellow is going to figure out perfect biological regeneration reversing aging and poof, he dies in a sudden accident. NEVER will elites allow common plebs live forever. We will instead be their forever slaves as they live forever and we are breed like cattle. Its only a matter of time and my intuition tells me his research is the closes to that goal.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Jack Kruse is more practical

[@ZeroInDaHouse]

When all of biotech is writing assembly code and messing around with low level code (such as gene editing) this dude came along and showed them how to program biology in Javascript. Truly revolutionary.

[@Naimadso]

Hopefully a little more reliable than JS :)

[@quigley61]

hopefully not JS, I think we might want a strongly typed language for biotech programming!

[@jmarty1000]

I would think Python would make the most useful implementation, and C++ the most portable... But I agree with your statement. This is revolutionary. I forsee a Nobel Prize being awarded for this kind of work.

[@bokchoiman]

This is the kind of stuff that gets me excited about science.

[@beaconsacademy]

Ever since I first watched his lecture, I fell in love with him. A remarkable scientist who will change the future..

[@ryanbaker7404]

My word, what a remarkably fabulous man and field of study. Can you imagine being a member of the first generation to be meaningfully impacted by this man's work? This is game changing science, and that is being conservative.

[@EZal17]

32:25 reeeeaaally takes “have you tried switching off and, after a bit, back on” ‘magic’ to a whole new level 🤯

[@getgal1]

This is amazing. Be very careful as you manipulate life itself.

[@alexm4161]

Wow. The "electric face" at 25:34 is amazing.

[@MLDawn]

This was absolutely brilliant. Could have been even better if the questions were left for until after the presentation was concluded.

[@dcbevins]

Outstanding. Best vid of the decade.

[@penguinista]

This is the kind of thing you willingly suspend disbelief over at the start of a science fiction novel. Then the people start regrowing limbs and organs, curing birth defects, make custom body modification (scales, fur, tails, gills, wings, etc), create custom life forms, and figure out immortality.

[@darrylrtaylor3056]

Just having encountered Dr Levine's work today, I remain mostly impressed but have some reservations. Those reservations likely have

[@devinkirtley6916]

Amazing work Michael.

[@mahoneytechnologies657]

I Love how Voltage Sensitive Dyes are being used to map voltage levels in real time in vivo within a cell or a developing embryo!

[@RichardVaught]

Unless I misunderstand his work, it implies that aberrant energy fields, such as radiation, would change cellular expression in improper ways(i.e. cancer). It would also imply that correcting the energetic signals would be able to be used for treating cancer.

[@doctorbobcannabuzz]

I’ve spent the past two years in an effort to regrow my own hip. I’ve made significant progress and it’s also interesting to observe biology on yourself while you’re fixing age related degeneration

[@doctorbobcannabuzz]

Canna-sapiens

[@Theodorus5]

We need greater spatial specificity of Vmem voltage control, ideally down to the single cell level: how?

[@imstevemcqueen]

😳 Electroceuticals...I'm blown away at the moment.

[@stimpyfeelinit]

I wonder what being bathed in emf from conception does to human morphology

[@SS369]

In a recent podcast Michael Levin was asked about 5G and he said the following (shortened): The truth is in-between both sides of the argument. There is no doubt EMFs affects cellular function, but it's likely overblown that 5G has such a massive impact that overshadows your lifestyle, meaning (for example) the stuff you eat, may impact your physiology more than 5G ever could. After all, he gives organisms chemicals that impact electrical interference between cells, if chemicals can impact that aspect -- the food you eat may contain many of those chemicals, and it's quite chaotic. Meanwhile, 5G EMFs are very static. As such, eating better food can literally overcome any damage caused by bad EMFs caused from 5G. And again -- that is a hypothesis/prediction based on available data.

[@PowersDave1966]

Fascinating and exciting. I am wondering how controversial this is.

[@ezekielsbot]

Thank you!

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Michael: How quickly do the bio-electrical messages travel through the body?

[@spacekiwikit]

So.. Mary Shelley was right?

[@lunkerjunkie]

I've been contemplating control is external manipulation for a desired outcome power is materialization of internal belief (held energy state) would this work be considered controlling power then

[@jmarty1000]

"Here's an early frog embryo, putting its face together".....😆

[@stevestelly3063]

Does this show us that consciousness originates on the cellular level. all cells are conscious. and together they make you.

[@DavidMorley123]

Panpsychism

[@bobbyjunelive]

The hopeful spawn de la Rodolfo Llinás. The conclusion of consciousness starts between two cells arriving, then, to us. Will the entire body be renamed the brain?

[@aisdesignunit]

"nicotine+gabapentin, nicotine+lamotrigine" - could you pls explain in a couple of words, what's so fundamental with nicotine to a living?

[@SS369]

Nicotine impacts acetylcholine, I believe the question should be directed to acetylcholine and once we know that in detail, we may research nicotine with a much better understanding of the science behind it's impact

[@marktomasetti8642]

Cellular biology has an API.

[@jaylenoschin8189]

18:53: "There is actually an explicit representation of a future goal-state." In other words a design. But don't go there, we don't want to give those religious people any ideas...

[@ruinner]

Yes they would love to say I told you so. But to some extent it starts to become more believable to have some design pressure on life. Life seems to get harder to describe as time goes on. With this theory, it is plausible to have intelligence without a physical being to house it.

[@Theodorus5]

​@@ruinnerOK but that intelligence and design intent here is connected to the organism so it's not a 'kooky' thing at all

[@colinadevivero]

Same

[@zenmeister451]

Quite fascinating. However, I don't think the little worms would agree.

[@phatwhacker3767]

I wonder what the hell I did to my cellves all those times I licked the 9 volt battery.

[@misaafton]

I'm just a random person finding this This is interesting

[@imstevemcqueen]

Seems more efficient than CRISPR

[@SS369]

More efficient? It is literally the control layer of genomics, CRISPR may do whatever it wants but if the control layer says no -- it couldn't matter less. CRISPR is dead if this technology gets developed fully. But both will have their moments, CRISPR will take much shorter to develop than the technology mentioned in this interview. CRISPR will eventually mostly die out.

[@maibemiles3904]

this is fine, just... fine... 😬😬😬 I can’t see ANy potential for something very bad to happen...

[@estelleaeon]

weird but if levin shaved the beard and put on a brown wig w/ bangs, he'd look like Zooey Deschanel

[@doctorbobcannabuzz]

Please look into my work I cannot post my URL or it’ll be blocked. Canna-sapiens

[@doctorbobcannabuzz]

I just tried posting it and it was removed within 20 seconds. Nothing like freedom of speech

[@DJ-Illuminate]

I would talk to Elon Musk at NeuroLink. I believe the threads used in the brain that reads electrical signal could be used to map this system out.

[@SS369]

Three people: Elon Musk, David Sinclair, and Michael Levin. Maybe Aubrey d Gray too! But if the first three sit on a table and exchange ideas, I believe humanity will advance with decades in a matter of hours.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

. 14:26 27:03

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Levin seems unable to interpret the philosophical import of his own work. If electrical stimulation can cause the development of a fully functional organ, such as an eye, rather than a particular type of tissue, then the level of description in the organism is certainly no longer chemical, but FUNCTIONAL, and organic. The eye has reference to the act of seeing. It speaks of PURPOSE in organisms. A self-organizing system cannot structure itself with reference to some purpose outside of itself. And DNA can encode proteins, but not the purpose for which they are synthesized. Aristotle was clearly correct about final causes in biology.

[@DavidMorley123]

I don't think he's unable to interpret philosophical issues - e.g., I've heard him reflect on pan-psychism throughout a body - but he's rather preoccupied with details at this stage of understanding, on which Aristotle might have spent more effort. :) but probly i didnt understand yor comment well enough.

[@bigred8438]

Making a decision or moving toward spiritual enlightenment? Encourage anatomical cellular collectives to help. Get out the Tibetan singing bowl.

[@jasonw137]

So... the take away is that we need children manning all industrial saws?

[@chicora1895]

We here on earth are the aliens!

[@tlebryk]

The Electric basis of the universe has been censored for 50+ years. Hopefully the same will not happen to this guy, too.

[@kwnorton5834]

People like this - awash with hubris, but unaware, staggers like a madman into our hapless future. This kind of science leads us straight into nightmare.

[@Theodorus5]

TOO MANY ADVERTS 😡 stop profiteering Thomas!

[@johannelavergne9973]

Playing God has consequences, open your eyes and just watch the consequences happening all around you. Our Father’s vengeance is at the door, repent you lunatics, the pit is deep and hot for the idolaters. May our Lord have mercy