What Nobody Told You About Natural Virus Engineering-Part 1 with Perry Marshall and Dov Baron In early 2020, the world was shut down by a virus. There are more conspiracies about that virus than there are about who shot JFK. But no matter where it came from, is it possible we need to include something…

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…

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:      

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…

I’ve been a Rush fan since Moving Pictures in the early 80s. Bought it when I was 12. Best album of my youth. I didn’t make it to one of their shows until my late 20s. My wife bought me a ticket. Witnessing that show axis-shifted my notion of musical performance. Even though I had…

The overwhelming success of genetics and molecular biology in the 1970s had an unfortunate side effect. DNA became the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ of biology and “the selfish gene” became the new secular pop religion. Physiology and medicine suffered great blows from this shift. The human genome project, though valuable, did not deliver even…