What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018

Was recently floored by Michael Levin's (one of this papers authors) talk at NIPS. Possibly the most amazing talk I have ever seen. [VIDEO]

What bodies think about - by Michael Levin at NeurIPS 2018. [VIDEO] I dont really know anything about biology, but this piqued my interest.One of the most interesting talks of 2018.

Recent but great talk posted here, What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System [1] by Prof. Michael Levin. He talks about how long term low energy electrical networks between all cells in living organisms shape how the organism grows. I think what he talks about will be the future of medicine as it allows for an amazing degree of high level control over how animals grow. 1. [VIDEO]

I'm very excited to see where we'll be in another 10 years. The possibilities in terms of medical and industrial applications seems hard to overstate. Related, but one of the best talks I've ever seen was this 2018 talk on the subject. It gets into how organisms seem to have bioelectrical patterns that store information separately from genomic, anatomical states. These bioelectrical patterns play a huge role in developmental processes, as they appear to control how the organism is structured at a high level. As a layman and a programmer, to me it sounds like the genome is the actual implementation of a function and the bioelectrical pattern is the sequence of functions you want to execute. They're able to manipulate these bioelectrical patterns to do things like replace a worms tail with another head. It's absolutely crazy to think about what could be possible here. [VIDEO]

I highly recommend this video from Levin. It was my introduction to his work. What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018 [VIDEO]

This talk of his blew my mind: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018" [VIDEO]

I highly recommend this talk "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018" by Prof. Michael Levin: [VIDEO]

First saw this talk from Michael Levin on HN a few years back and it blew my mind. Ive been following him ever since. [VIDEO]