Michael Levin

@drmichaellevin

Scientist working at Tufts University; my lab studies patterning and computation in a range of biological systems.

drmichaellevin.org
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2013.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. prije 2 sata

    Very excited to be on my way to Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine symposium on Engineering Cell and Tissue Organization

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  2. 1. velj

    Here's one of the long-form essays on Causation in biology expanding on : "Biophysics of Regenerative Repair Suggests New Perspectives on Biological Causation": Others' (like 's) should be out soon in forthcoming collection.

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  3. 31. sij

    Rubber Hand Illusion & more generally Isn't it weird that despite long evolutionary time of dependable (constant) body structure, brain is willing to abandon default, & revise somatic self-model after mere ~20 minutes of experience?

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  4. 27. sij

    Classic on multi-headed snakes.

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  5. 26. sij

    Before very important Jan. event, told myself "no thinking about new directions until all prep is done & we get past it." Oddly, this triggered flood of new ideas (written down for later). Is this a known thing? What strategies do you all use for enhancing actionable creativity?

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  6. 17. sij

    "Living matter is the repetitive production of ordered heterogeneity." – Rollin Hotchkiss, 1958

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  7. 13. sij

    Check out our (, , Doug Blackiston) latest in PNAS: 1st of a series of papers on new synthetic living machines. What kinds of bodies can frog cells (no genomic editing) make when liberated from the embryo? Guided self-assembly.

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  8. 12. sij

    Does biology have truly difficult ideas? Studying math, comp sci, physics, etc., one quickly encounters material that is hard to truly grasp (and many of us get to a point where we mentally just can't go further, while some others can). Does this exist in biology? If not, why?

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  9. 10. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    I don't know, but I am open to the possibility that explanatory successes of the traditional scientific method of the 1600's are "low hanging fruit" in a sense; no guarantee that every aspect of nature is understandable *in this way*, and maybe we encounter aspects that aren't.

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  10. 10. sij

    Re. deep net models that get answers right without explaining what's inside the black box. Isn't this what quantum physicists say - QM theory is great because it gives right answers to huge precision, and that asking for an understandable picture of what's inside is misguided?

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  11. 9. sij

    I have kept every email I've ever sent or received since 1988 (archive to SQL database). Recently, did some data analytics on it. For example, here's a graph of # of emails I've gotten with the word "problem" in it (not including "no problem" or "problem solved").

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  12. 8. sij

    “Thank God I’m Jung, and not a Jungian." -- Carl Jung

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  13. 5. sij

    "You are being very foolish. ... At your age you cannot waste your time. We will never understand the phenomena of development and regeneration." - T. H. Morgan, in a story recounted by N. J. Berril

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  14. 4. sij

    Just heard a lecture on Depersonalization Disorder. Fascinating; sounds like what should happen to people once they really get onboard w/ modern views about the Self not really existing, consciousness as a user illusion, etc. A "thought that breaks the thinker". Why doesn't it?

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  15. 2. sij

    Excerpt of a prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "Make me clever and resourceful, so that I can find important discoveries and experiences among the diversity of days. Help me use my time better. Present me with the sense to judge whether something is important or not."

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  16. 1. sij

    "Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions" also, Interesting! are same: clonal animals, living in same tub, but show huge personality differences in behavior experiments.

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  17. 29. pro 2019.

    “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” -- John Dewey

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  18. 28. pro 2019.

    hmmm I've got to think this is one of those things they cover on day 1 of training? Saw this out of my airplane window, right before we took off (minutes before the engine spun up!).

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  19. 27. pro 2019.

    "primary motivation of Phycomyces research [is] the desire to see how far molecular biology can take us in the understanding of an organism, especially its integration into its environment, its intake of information, its processing of such information...” - Max Delbruck , 1975

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  20. 26. pro 2019.

    How do cells ensure that flat structures stay flat? Flatworms for example - what forces keep cells from building upwards? Clearly planaria don't *have* to be flat: (images from ) And tadpole tails - when growing/regenerating, how do they stay so flat?

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