Biology is an incredibly conservative profession. As the famous saying goes, “Science proceeds one funeral at a time.” The situation the author is dealing with is: the public has been fed a tragically over simplified version of science. Accurate information needs to replace long-standing misconceptions. However, if you are too overt in stating this, the…
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The Cancer Open Source Tissue Repository will spare patients from late-stage slash, poison and burn; it will save lives and prevent financial disaster. It will give deep new insights into the origins of cancer; and lead to treatments that find cancer before it finds us. The Repository, founded by Dr. Azra Raza, solves FIVE problems…
How the Neo-Darwinists tried for 50 years to slam the door on a conversation we needed to be having all along:
Philip Ball’s new book “How Life Works” is an outstanding introduction to the new biology that transcends the dead-on-arrival textbook version of evolution that has kept science stuck in the 1970s for so long. Denis Noble wrote a beautiful review of Ball’s book in Nature Magazine, saying “It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for…
Michael Levin posted this excellent video offering a new definition of cancer: Check out this amazing video project by Harvard student Jordan Strasser – about cancer in the broader context of multiscale complex systems:
This video explains, using simple and elegant mathematical proofs, why the universal computational ability proves a computer is not conscious – because all of the meanings and conventions of any computer (IOS vs Android, Java vs. PHP, WAV vs MP3 etc) are assigned by conscious beings:
“The Selfish Gene was the best selling science book of the 20th century. But The Selfish Gene got cause and effect backwards, assigning agency to natural selection instead of the organism itself. It embraced the greatest errors of the Modern Synthesis while downplaying much of what it got right. “It crowned the gene king of…
Are your sense of “self” and your experiences and memories just a set of brain states? Is a human basically a wet computer? Or is your brain just a mechanism for channeling these things into the physical world? Are we purely physical beings? Or are our minds extensions of something larger? Marco Masi’s new paper…
Michael Levin at Tufts University has stumbled into a new universe. Today (30 Nov 2023) he released a new paper revealing that when nurtured outside the body, human lung cells can morph into autonomous organisms that can repair damaged nerve tissues. These creatures are called “Anthrobots.” Michael writes: “We envision many future uses in the…
In my paper “The Role of Quantum Mechanics in Cognition Based Evolution,” I propose a new perspective on biology: thinking creates codes, which in turn control chemicals, much like a brain sending instructions to the body. This challenges the traditional view in biology where it’s believed chemicals create codes leading to consciousness. There’s no evidence…
