Plenary session kindly contributed by Michael Levin in SEMF's 2022 Spacious Spatiality

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SESSION ABSTRACT
Life was solving problems in metabolic, genetic, physiological, and anatomical spaces long before brains and nervous systems appeared. In this talk, I will describe remarkable capabilities of cell groups as they create, repair, and remodel complex anatomies. Anatomical homeostasis reveals that groups of cells are collective intelligences; their cognitive medium is the same as that of the human mind: electrical signals propagating in cell networks. I will explain non-neural bioelectricity and the tools we use to track the basal cognition of cells and tissues and control their function for applications in regenerative medicine. I will conclude with a discussion of our framework based on evolutionary scaling of intelligence by pivoting conserved mechanisms that allow agents, whether designed or evolved, to navigate complex problem spaces.

SESSION MATERIALS
· The Electrical Blueprints that Orchestrate Life (TED Talk): https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_lev...
· Michael Levin's interviews and presentations: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/le...
· Michael Levin's publications: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/le...
· The Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms (ICDO): https://icdorgs.org/

MICHAEL LEVIN
Department of Biology, Tufts University: https://as.tufts.edu/biology
Tufts University profile: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/le...
Wyss Institute profile: https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/associa...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
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