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Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED

Biologist Michael Levin explains the bioelectric layer that coordinates cells to build organs and bodies, showing footage of two-headed worms and introducing xenobots. He discusses implications for medicine and the nature of life.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters use it as the accessible 20-minute entry point to Levin's bioelectricity research whenever regeneration or cell signaling comes up.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
TED
Topic
bioelectricity and regeneration
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
7
HN mentions in dataset
13
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Electric potential across other cells and also single-cell organisms is well known and not new. This is new though (and revolutionary): [VIDEO] Regarding consciousness, I don't get why people who submit to consciousness being everywhere in the universe have problem with simply calling it the …

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  • your cells are sensitive to charge in general - cells attempt to maintain certain voltage differentials across their membranes via ion channels in the cell membrane, can communicate voltage information with each other via gap junctions, etc. That electrical communication does control how cells behave. …

    LegitShady on Hacker News · 2023-03
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  • Regarding how the body "knows" how to form missing pieces, might be worth checking out Michael Levin's research regarding bio-electricity. Most interesting finding to me is that once modified, the animal bodies continue to produce different parts as if there is some electrical "memory" in …

    l2p on Hacker News · 2021-12
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