{"id":238937,"date":"2026-06-14T01:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-intelligence-of-our-cells-with-michael-levin"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:34:31","slug":"the-intelligence-of-our-cells-with-michael-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-intelligence-of-our-cells-with-michael-levin","title":{"rendered":"The Intelligence of Our Cells with Michael Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROWBN3l-Wks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each one of us have made the remarkable journey from matter to mind. The destination is our existence, one whole conscious being. The marvellous nature of our intelligence can be traced to the aptitude of every individual cell in our body. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. What if we could rewire the code that separates self from world? Tadpoles with eyes growing from their tails, worms with two heads-is the manifestation of biology governed entirely by chance?<\/p>\n<p>Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2014 Collective Intelligence 03:38 \u2014 Cognitive Light Cones 09:32 \u2014 Scaling of the light cone 12:07-Definition of Intelligent Life 13:53 \u2014 Free Energy Principle 15:02 \u2014 Cognitive Glue 17:56 \u2014 Bioelectricity vs Genetics 23:23 \u2014 Limb Regeneration in Humans 24:24 \u2014 Solving Cancer 28:02 \u2014 Length of Effects 29:09 \u2014 Alien Life 31:31 \u2014 Communicating with our body organs 35:13 \u2014 Tic Tac Toe with an Alien 38:41 \u2014 Training our body organs 40:06 \u2014 Non-Cellular intelligence 41:03 \u2014 Is everything intelligent in the universe? 45:11 \u2014 Collective vs Parts 47:10 \u2014 Mike\u2019s message to extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each one of us have made the remarkable journey from matter to mind. The destination is our existence, one whole conscious being. The marvellous nature of our intelligence can be traced to the aptitude of every individual cell in our body. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. What if we could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}