Bioelectricity, Sentient Beings, and Proof of Humanity with Professor Michael Levin

What the (Bio)Hack?! Podcast

Bronic's What the (Bio)Hack?! is a podcast to discover what the hack security means for biology. Our host interviews some of the world's mad scientists and rad hackers across deceivingly unrelated disciplines to uncover what the future holds and how we can design against crime.
In this episode, we speak with Michael Levin, Professor of developmental and synthetic biology at Tufts University focusing on Morphological and behavioural information processing in living systems. Wondering what the heck that means? Michael walks us through the concept of diverse intelligence evolving through morphogenesis: the ability of multicellular bodies to self-assemble, repair, and improvise novel solutions to anatomical goals. We explore what "agential" materials or materials with an agenda are and investigate the magic of bioelectricity. Michael shares his extraordinary research on chimeric frogolotls (Frog + Axolotl) and what they offer in the study of xenobots. We talk about bioelectricity, sentient beings, proof of humanity and more to understand what the future holds and how we can design against crime.