Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

University courses Biological & Life Sciences
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In this episode of the famous Lex Fridman podcast, Michael Levin discusses biology, life, aliens, evolution, embryogenesis, and xenobots. He emphasizes the need to understand the innate capacities of organisms before attempting to engineer or program them, and goes on to argue that advances in regenerative medicine require us to take advantage of this.

Topics talked about:

  • The biology behind memory storage and computer systems and a new idea called software 2.0
  • The challenge of understanding other minds, the problem of competing groups of intelligent beings, and the idea that evolution optimizes for biomass, not for intelligence or fairness
  • The potential of synthetic biology and xenobots
  • The work that his team is doing to develop a method for regenerating limbs
  • How we can use xenobots to study evolution and how they can help us understand the origins of life.
  • How xenobots can be used to create new life forms, and how they could be used to create aliens.

Though long, its an incredible episode you can’t miss!

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I love Lex Fridman! Even though I don’t fully understand the topics of his episodes, it’s always interesting to see what his guests have to say. They also use a very clear language that helps people to understand the topics

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i love him too! he brings the most interesting guests on his show

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