Collateral Damage
by Mickie Kennedy
Is it too late at 50 years of age to plant roots
and form the kind of friendships that desire
an audience with a dying man, waiting hours
by a bed until he wakes and eats
a bit of vanilla pudding? I suspect it’s not
but life remains a cracked vase that still
holds water, an oven mitt on standby
as the oven timer counts down. It’s a game of
Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University crosses many disciplines: computer science, embryo development, cancer and tumor research; limb regeneration; evolutionary theory and neural networks.
If you watch some of Michael’s fascinating talks at https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/research/presentations.htm he’ll take you down his magical rabbit hole including worms that grow new heads when you cut them in half, tumors that heal themselves and eyes planted on tails that actually work.
In this interview, Michael explodes the myth that “we’ve got it mostly figured out.”
The truth is closer to 1% understanding and 99% is Dark Matter.
Discover Michael’s research at https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/michael-levin/ and http://www.drmichaellevin.org.
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Here we illustrate the difference between algorithms and conscious beings playing a simple game on the iPhone: If you ONLY get to use autofill, how long can you keep the game going? Pretty long, so long as you make choices. On the other hand, if you just pick choices at random, or let the phone make the choice for you, you immediately devolve into repetitive gibberish.
This illustrates the fundamental difference between humans and algorithms. Humans anticipate the future, where algorithms can only respond to the present based on patterns in the past. The difference is huge. This problem exists no matter how sophisticated the algorithm. This simple game illustrates one of the most critical limitations of AI as it currently exists.
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Azra Raza treated cancer patients for 30 years, but not even the loss of her Oncologist husband could provoke her to write a book. It took the death of her daughter’s dearest 22 year old friend – when suddenly she realized she had to speak up.
Here we discuss the one most important thing that The System overlooks – THE PATIENT’S ANGUISH – and speaks out about the state of cancer research in the 21st century. Groupthink, sexism, ignorance of history, and absence of empathy… and no one is in charge.
A quarter-trillion dollars later, we’re still carrying out the same punishing treatments we were doling out in the 1970s – where life extensions of six weeks are heralded as “breakthroughs.”
We discuss the “Cancer Cambrian” and the great black hole that is our grasp of cancer cellular evolution.
Finally, witness Azra’s dream of a superior system for detecting and beating cancer.
Azra Raza’s Website — https://azraraza.com/
Azra’s Book, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last — https://amzn.to/39EC5hg
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James Tour, a renowned nanochemist at Rice University, has been openly critical of Origin Of Life literature for being too optimistic, too sanguine and at times misleading. See this video for example www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg
When Perry Marshall took part in a discussion on the Unbelievable show with Denis Noble and Lee Cronin, host Justin Brierley mentioned Tour and his criticism. A reaction ensued, which led to Tour and Cronin going head to head on an international radio program and podcast. Here, we re-broadcast the scene that provoked the controversy and the debate that followed.
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Addy Pross is a Chemist at Ben Gurion University in Israel. He’s author of “What is Life: How Chemistry Becomes Biology” by Oxford University Press. Here we enjoyed a great conversation about his specialty, Systems Chemistry, a new branch of science that enables us to build complex networks of chemical reactions like those found inside of cells.
We explore the unanswered questions that continue to perplex scientists of all kinds.
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Referencing the Evolution 2.0 Prize: “The largest basic research science prize in history is still on offer for the demonstration of a natural origin of genetic code from chemical organization.”
–Nature Evolution and Ecology, “The early origin of cooperation” by Joana Xavier
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1075-z
Joana Xavier is an Origin Of Life researcher at the Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has published numerous papers on life’s origin.
Also see her paper, “Systems Biology Perspectives on Minimal and Simpler Cells.”
Lynn Margulis, who died in 2012, was a piercing luminary in the history of evolutionary theory.
She overturned the money changer’s tables in the temple of science and infuriated a lot of people. But history has continued to vindicate her.
In this interview, she and Conner explore a very different way of thinking about life itself and you’ll hear her brilliant mind and feisty posture.
Conner Habib’s Patreon: Patreon.com/connerhabib
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This is Perry Marshall and I’m long overdue to mention a really great book that came out not too long ago. It’s called The Works of His Hands by Sy Garte.
Sy is a molecular biologist that I met at some science meetings in the last few years. Probably a couple years ago he sent me a manuscript of this book and I read it. I was like, “Dude, you have to get this book published with a good publisher, and you need to really do this justice because this is way above average.”
This is a science and faith book, but it is not like most. In my opinion, most science and faith books are a little starchy or a little too sentimental or they have bad science or whatever. This one was a real gem.
William Miller tells his story of being seduced into evolutionary science by a mysterious female named Sue.
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{ Adam was indeed the first human, for his wife was "the mother of all living" (Gen 3:20). } – May 30, 10:12 PM { Perry, Intervention is reactive. Contrasting, God is proactive. For it is written: "Before they call I will answer". Your idea ... } – May 29, 11:53 PM
{ Jim Lea, We could continue our discussion through private email, of course, and this alternative is okay with me, if ... } – May 29, 11:44 AM
{ This website blocks me at every turn when I hit Reply and try to Submit. David Seldon, the moderator, told ... } – May 24, 6:06 PM { Moderator, Can you help Jim Lea with his 403 error? I would like to see what he wanted to post. ... } – May 16, 3:41 PM
{ Which reminds me of the idea that all the information present in a certain 3D volume of space can be ... } – May 27, 10:36 AM { I would think there's more in it. I read the article and the origin of the body plan is indeed ... } – May 27, 8:24 AM { Perry, on page 45 in your book, you say: “In humans, 46 chromosomes comprise instructions for building the whole body”. ... } – May 18, 11:20 AM
{ I'm not going to touch on the origins of life, rather on the origin of "intelligent" life. If we look ... } – May 22, 10:34 AM
{ Why focus on Dawkins, etc. Promote the truth and let Dawkins blather on. At times I believe that he purposefully ... } – May 12, 9:41 PM
{ You have said much but provided no evidence in support. Why? You had plenty of space provided. But you simply ... } – May 09, 7:05 PM
{ I’m not sure where you’re getting your odd view of “evolution” from, Robert, but it’s not from actual evolutionary writings. ... } – May 19, 2:28 PM
{ Okay.. human create new species from lion and jaguar producing Liguar is that an evolution for you now. } – May 19, 4:57 AM
{ James Downard: You speak of "processes of speciation" and hint that a chain of mutations can result in a change ... } – May 18, 1:51 PM
{ Thank you .. Biblia spune ca au avut loc mutatii genetice pe pamint :Geneza 6/1-7 greu de acceptat pentru civilizatia ... } – May 16, 4:28 AM
{ Are you saying the bible caused you ro be an atheist or were you already an atheist } – May 03, 2:23 AM
{ Do not simply read the Bible, study it, and you will become an atheist on page 3. } – Apr 27, 6:16 AM { Ray Womack, What specific arguments do you have in mind? You replied to Bill Furman, but I think he was ... } – Apr 30, 10:24 AM
{ These arguments sound like "how many angels will fit on the head of a pin?" We Christians cannot insist on ... } – Apr 27, 2:06 PM
{ Great interview Perry and Michael. HOWEVER, what Michael misses is the 'meat' in the biological 'sandwich' of evolution and regeneration. ... } – Apr 29, 6:11 AM
{ Breathtakingly simple and immediately comprehensible. Thanks. } – Apr 13, 4:57 PM
{ Humans are undoubtedly _currently_ better at predicting the future than algorithms within highly complex multivariate problem domains. I was able ... } – Apr 13, 7:46 AM
{ Great illustration, could you please make the transcript available online? } – Apr 13, 4:31 AM
{ Christine Hoeflich, the video of Dr Andrew Kaufman is interesting, but it is lopsided and oversimplified IMHO. It is based ... } – Apr 08, 3:28 PM
{ Computer models are only as good as the numerous assumptions that are made. Here's a must-watch video from Dr Andrew ... } – Apr 07, 12:15 PM
{ The paper 'Quantifying the pathway to life using assembly spaces', by Lee Cronin and Sarah Walker mentioned above, is an ... } – Apr 08, 2:44 PM
