Michael Levin is a developmental biologist at Tufts University who researches bioelectricity, morphogenesis and problem-solving in living systems. His experiments show that cells and tissues can coordinate toward anatomical goals in ways that challenge a very strict divide between mechanism and cognition. The work does not prove that the universe is conscious, but it widens the question of where agency begins.
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