Speaker
Michael Levin
Description
How do cells cooperate toward creating and maintaining complex body structures? How do cells know what to build and when to stop? Endogenous bioelectric signaling functions as a cognitive glue, binding individual cells toward a collective intelligence that navigates anatomical space. Groups of cells solve problems across embryogenesis, regeneration, aging, and cancer suppression, using bioelectrical networks to store setpoint patterns. In this talk, I will explain the mechanisms and algorithms by which bioelectric networks implement the mind of the body. An exciting roadmap for definitive regenerative medicine is made possible by targeting the bioelectric interface to reprogram and collaborate with the agential material of life.
