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Regenerative Memory in Planarians
1:16:40 - 1:21:33 (04:52)
Certain drugs can make planarians regenerate with two heads instead of one, and even when these two-headed creatures are cut up into pieces, some of those pieces continue to make two-headed animals. This suggests that planarians are capable of storing and passing down regenerative memory through their electrical circuits.
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Researchers detected a somatic electrical network that recalls memories and directs the movements in flatworms and successfully incepted a false memory by manipulating electrical patterns.
1:16:40 - 1:17:28 (00:48)
Summary
Researchers detected a somatic electrical network that recalls memories and directs the movements in flatworms and successfully incepted a false memory by manipulating electrical patterns.
ChapterRegenerative Memory in Planarians
Episode#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Two-headed worms have the ability to regenerate into both single-head and two-head organisms, holding their "memories" in their electrical circuits.
1:17:28 - 1:19:19 (01:50)
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Two-headed worms have the ability to regenerate into both single-head and two-head organisms, holding their "memories" in their electrical circuits. Scientists are using drugs to manipulate the worms' electrical patterns and study the process further.
ChapterRegenerative Memory in Planarians
Episode#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The hardware of an organism is crucial to understanding its physiology and abilities, such as anatomical control, cancer resistance, and regenerative capabilities.
1:19:19 - 1:21:33 (02:13)
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The hardware of an organism is crucial to understanding its physiology and abilities, such as anatomical control, cancer resistance, and regenerative capabilities. Studying the evolution of organisms with varying genomes and hardware can provide insight into these phenomena.