Can Cells Think? The Magic of Developmental Biology

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The John Templeton Foundation recently invited biologist Michael Levin to speak to a small group about the presence of agency and cognition in the most fundamental forms of life, even at the levels of cells and tissues. In the recorded video, Dr. Levin, who directs a developmental biology lab at Tufts University, discusses with Philip Ball, a science writer and author of the newly published Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings.
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@joeimbesi99 Жыл бұрын

Frog skin cells by themselves with NO "bullying" from other types of cells form Xenobots that can Navigate and round up others in a ball..incredible thats a form of intelligence..This man and his colleagues are really on to something..Soon hell deserve a Noble

@sssssnake222 11 ай бұрын

Not only can they think, they built the most sophisticated self replicating animatronic robot known in the universe, the Human being. The brain is just internet and data storage for all the different cells.

@hosoiarchives4858 5 ай бұрын

lol no

@srenharaldsted3384 Жыл бұрын

Nice Feynman reference with the bongo drums. Also absolutely amazing talk.

@Nah_Bohdi Жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure, Professor.

@Video2Webb Жыл бұрын

Mind-blowing comments from Michael Levin. Right up my street. Now to find out more detail on his work. Thank you for putting this on KZfaq - and where is the rest of the video?!

@jasoncarlile8393 Жыл бұрын

Intelligence on steriods,i'm fasinated, if u could transition over to the human cellular functions& signals&discover why diseases can overcome the immune system the nobel prize is a given for you& listening to you there is no doubt what so ever god has blessed you with intelligence very few have,hope there are more like you out there, we'd all feel much safer in a world that seems to care about money&cares less about human life or suffering

@tabasdezh 10 ай бұрын

A great and mindful video👌 thanks for sharing.

@robertsmyk4102 11 ай бұрын

A rat can be trained because it wants to learn. Living cells are made to learn. All life begins with a seed or egg that contains DNA in cells. All cells are automatons with adaptive logic (a learning logic). DNA develops a memory that is created as the cell reacts with the environment (one type is the epigenome). Every cell contains this DNA blueprint and can be used to grow the complete animal or plant. The mitochondria (with their own DNA) live in the cell and interact with the nucleus and some mitochondria even exit the cell to visit other cells thus creating a feedback element that helps the DNA of the cell to exchange information with other cells and thus learn about situations external to the cell. There are other feedback elements such as signaling molecules that circulate in the extracellular matrix. Every cell becomes differentiated to a particular location and function in the entity and contains knowledge of its purpose (because it contains DNA that describes this) and thus with feedback knows when to contribute to the construction of the entity and know when functionality is complete or damaged and thus stops development or begins repairs.

@stephenfegely Жыл бұрын

I experience the world as a elaborate projection and its source is based on cellular intelligence.

@rockapedra1130 7 күн бұрын

All of us were once "just physics". That's pretty deep ... Hmmmm ....

@444haluk Жыл бұрын

8:27 If it has kind, it cannot be continous. the word "kind" and "degree" (how much) signifies the category and amount, the discrete and continous.

@mut8inG 11 ай бұрын

Seth books by Jane Roberts in the 1960s and 1970s, audio by Tim on KZfaq=Unknown Reality, for example. Everything came from a dream-consciousness is in everything. period. period. “You create your reality,” you, creator, you. No blame. peace+&-🎶💥🌸

@necksugar 11 ай бұрын

Can you comment on XMenes and their role in security?

@hazshuffle 10 ай бұрын

If a cell has a certain light cone of cognition to pursue goals...then an organs light cone of cognition is the coupling/ inerferance of the light cones composing it. And so on...but what is the light cone of humanity, or even more broad..of life..or of matter...or of energy..dones energy have a light cone of cognition?

@johnyaxon__ 10 ай бұрын

Yes and no

@necksugar 11 ай бұрын

To one system, the "IRL ne$$" of ones "metaphor" ( or real truthness in reality) does not apply. But to this system, the response and reactions are motivated BY what the BEAST sees as true. ,

@shaccooper4828 11 ай бұрын

Magic sounds like miracles 😂

@meesalikeu 11 ай бұрын

BLOOD MUSIC BY GREG BEAR HAS ENTERED THE CHAT ...!

@missmurrydesign7115 11 ай бұрын

Delicious...

@necksugar 11 ай бұрын

evolutionary or developmental is fascinating. But... What if the same figuring STARTED with INTELLIGENCE to begin going forward?? 🤯. ( instead of assuming evolution IS the only way) What about that scenario is proving to be impossible??? That The One Creator of all Information was Relational to ALL. All of that material that was, would be and is .) Could it have been preExisting any category or language to describe it ? What bias' manifest$ intolerance to the entertainment of a "First Cause" Who breathed encoded universes of imagination and potentials to every being.. Inside nested libraries of people's cells are more and more libraries and NOW also their edits all at once. Not ONLY is neuro Scaling up, but so is energy, security and justice. Is that not the works of a conspiring intelligence? There's a subtle deception in the field. Nearly to the time that it IS the field. Unless considering how the whole world, the field, the flesh and the devil all play out together in the Escatolological equation.. Could biology/ neurology be missing something?