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.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots | Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
