Michael Levin

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible b... by Michael Levin

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

On Monday I got a text from a friend who said, ‘Hey, I just saw you in the new Warren video attacking Trump.’ And I thought, ‘You've got to be kidding me,’ i watched the video, and to my shock and surprise, there I was.

And apparently it's still up on YouTube, and I think the Warren people just googled ‘American Dream,’ found us, and said, ‘What a nice mixed-race couple. They're probably sort of working-class people.’.

There were no such calls, and I only found out after the video had gone viral, i think about 12 million people have now seen me actually assenting – or appearing to assent – to her position on Trump.

The little girl you saw in that video actually came with me to the polls with her siblings to watch me vote for him.

The electrical communication amongst cells is really important for tumor suppression, the bigger picture is to understand how these voltages are passed among cells and how they control the transfer of chemical signals among cells.

The idea is much like the brain, when neuroscientists try to figure out the semantics of electrical states in the brain. We try to figure out how patterns are encoded in electrical states in the body.

The electrical communication amongst cells is really important for tumor suppression. The bigger picture is to understand how these voltages are passed among cells and how they control the transfer of chemical signals among cells, we need to crack this bioelectrical code. We really need to figure out how computations in tissues and decision making about pattern and cell behavior and so on are encoded in electrical signaling. That is sort of the next ten years.

We call this whole research program cracking the bioelectric code... by Michael Levin

We call this whole research program cracking the bioelectric code.

I was astounded by Tufts University, frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you... liberate( the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce.