{"id":12283,"date":"2026-01-21T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/dr-michael-levin-reprogramming-bioelectricity-updating-software-for-anti-aging-treating-cancer-without-drugs-cognition-of-cells-and-much-more-849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:59","slug":"dr-michael-levin-reprogramming-bioelectricity-updating-software-for-anti-aging-treating-cancer-without-drugs-cognition-of-cells-and-much-more-849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/dr-michael-levin-reprogramming-bioelectricity-updating-software-for-anti-aging-treating-cancer-without-drugs-cognition-of-cells-and-much-more-849\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Michael Levin \u2014 Reprogramming Bioelectricity, Updating &#8220;Software&#8221; for Anti-Aging, Treating Cancer Without Drugs, Cognition of Cells, and Much More (#849)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Michael Levin \u2014 Reprogramming Bioelectricity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kz1jnoKfRrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dr. Michael Levin<\/strong> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drmichaellevin\">@drmichaellevin<\/a> ) is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and director of the Allen Discovery Center. His background is in computer science and biology, and his group works at the intersection of developmental biophysics, computer science, and cognitive science. He is primarily interested in how intelligence self-organizes in a diverse range of natural, engineered, and hybrid embodiments. Levin has been developing a framework for recognizing and communicating with unconventional cognitive systems.<\/p>\n<p>Applied to the collective intelligence of cell groups undergoing morphogenesis, these ideas have allowed the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drmichaellevin.org\">Levin Lab<\/a> to develop new applications in birth defects, organ regeneration, and cancer suppression. His lab also produces synthetic life-forms (e.g., Xenobots and Anthrobots) that serve as exploration platforms for understanding the source of patterns of form and behavior in a wide range of natural, artificial, and hybrid embodied minds.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>This episode is brought to you by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"podcast-player\">\n<div class=\"podcast-player-inner-wrap\">\n<p>Dr. Michael Levin \u2014 Reprogramming Bioelectricity, Updating \u201cSoftware\u201d for Anti-Aging, Treating Cancer Without Drugs, Cognition of Cells, and Much More (#849)<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.art19.com\/shows\/58dacbdc-646e-4585-9914-19c3de11d1ba\/episodes\/31828d17-5e5c-436d-9d16-8cd82ed4f60f\/embed?type=micro\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 30px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional podcast platforms<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Listen to this episode on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/849-dr-michael-levin-reprogramming-bioelectricity-updating\/id863897795?i=1000746064784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5X2Yx3ue9ylmo8P67ncJuG?si=GTs1cs7eRamNRjm4JEWFvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+AAKebtgfB_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Overcast<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/podcast\/2031148#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/timferriss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pocket Casts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/castbox.fm\/channel\/id1059468?country=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Castbox<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLuu6fDad2eJyWPm9dQfuorm2uuYHBZDCB\">YouTube Music<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/9814f3cc-1dc5-4003-b816-44a8eb6bf666\/the-tim-ferriss-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/podcast\/The-Tim-Ferriss-Show\/B08K58QX5W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audible<\/a>, or on your favorite podcast platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcripts<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Connect with <strong>Dr. Michael Levin<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtforms.life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Personal Blog<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/drmichaellevin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lab Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtforms-life.aipodcast.ing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thoughtforms Life Podcast<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3pVafx6EZqXVI2V_Efu2uw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drmichaellevin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michael\u2019s TED Talk<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XheAMrS8Q1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles &amp; Resources<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books &amp; Stories<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films &amp; Documentaries<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Companies, Organizations, &amp; Schools<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Concepts &amp; Terms<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bioelectricity<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Regeneration &amp; Development<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aging<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cognition &amp; Intelligence<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computing &amp; Information<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Philosophy of Mind<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Scientific Concepts<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research &amp; Experiments<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Medical &amp; Therapeutic Applications<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2025\/08\/27\/kevin-tracey-vagus-nerve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Most Has My Attention Right Now \u2014 Credible (vs. Bogus) Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Kevin J. Tracey, MD<\/a> | The Tim Ferriss Show #824<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2025\/04\/10\/philip-goff-exploring-consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philip Goff \u2014 Exploring Consciousness and Non-Ordinary Religion, Galileo\u2019s Error, Panpsychism, Heretical Ideas, and Therapeutic Belief<\/a> | The Tim Ferriss Show #805<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2022\/04\/13\/donald-hoffman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Donald Hoffman \u2014 The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More<\/a> | The Tim Ferriss Show #585<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2020\/12\/16\/martine-rothblatt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Martine Rothblatt \u2014 A Masterclass on Asking Better Questions and Peering Into the Future<\/a> | The Tim Ferriss Show #487<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2016\/10\/23\/erik-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erik Vance \u2014 The Magic and Power of Placebo<\/a> | The Tim Ferriss Show #194<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TIMESTAMPS<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[00:03:18] <em>The Body Electric<\/em>: A Vancouver bookstore discovery that launched a career.<\/li>\n<li>[00:04:19] Bioelectricity 101: Your brain uses it to think; your body used it before you had a brain.<\/li>\n<li>[00:06:05] The lesson learned by scrambled tadpole faces that rearrange themselves.<\/li>\n<li>[00:08:51] Software vs. hardware: The genome is your factory settings, not your destiny.<\/li>\n<li>[00:11:43] Two-headed flatworms: Rewriting biological memory without touching DNA.<\/li>\n<li>[00:16:20] Seeing memories: Voltage-sensitive dyes reveal the body\u2019s hidden blueprints.<\/li>\n<li>[00:20:12] Three killer apps for humans: Birth defects, regeneration, and cancer.<\/li>\n<li>[00:24:27] Cancer as identity crisis: Cells forgetting they\u2019re part of a team.<\/li>\n<li>[00:25:40] The boredom theory of aging: Goal-seeking systems with nothing left to do.<\/li>\n<li>[00:30:09] Planaria\u2019s immortality hack: Rip yourself in half every two weeks.<\/li>\n<li>[00:31:27] Manhattan Project for aging: Crack cellular cognition, everything else falls into place.<\/li>\n<li>[00:33:47] Giving cells new goals: Convince a gut to become an eye.<\/li>\n<li>[00:37:42] Must mammalian mortality be mandatory?<\/li>\n<li>[00:40:25] Cross-pollination: Why biologists would benefit from programming courses.<\/li>\n<li>[00:47:15] Does acupuncture actually do anything?<\/li>\n<li>[00:50:57] Placebo as feature, not bug: Words and drugs share the same mechanism.<\/li>\n<li>[00:55:06] The frame problem: Why robots explode and rats intuit what matters.<\/li>\n<li>[00:59:41] Binary thinking is a trap: \u201cIs it intelligent?\u201d is the wrong question.<\/li>\n<li>[01:07:46] Minimal brain, normal IQ: Clinical cases that break neuroscience.<\/li>\n<li>[01:08:45] Super panpsychism: Your liver might have opinions.<\/li>\n<li>[01:13:48] The Platonic space: Bodies as thin clients for patterns from elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>[01:15:24] Keep asking \u201cwhy\u201d and you end up in the math department.<\/li>\n<li>[01:23:07] Polycomputing: Sorting algorithms secretly doing side quests.<\/li>\n<li>[01:28:24] Power scaling for the future and avoiding red herrings for understanding machine minds.<\/li>\n<li>[01:34:06] Sci-fi recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>[01:37:24] Cliff Tabin\u2019s toast and Dan Dennett\u2019s steel manning.<\/li>\n<li>[01:41:21] Parting thoughts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DR. MICHAEL LEVIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cSo what I tried to show in that talk are some examples by which the living tissues, for example, flatworms that are cut into pieces and every piece has to figure out \u201cHow many heads should I have? Where do the heads go? What should the shape of my face be?\u201d These kinds of things, that in fact they do know, and the way they know is because they store memories, and maybe not shockingly, although it\u2019s certainly shocking to a lot of folks, the way those memories are stored is in an electrical network that is very similar to the way that we store our goal-directed behavioral repertoires in our brain and that these things are widely spread. And so regeneration, cancer suppression, and cancer repair and remodeling, birth defects and birth defect repair, all of these things are extensively using electrical pattern memories, and we now have a way to rewrite those pattern memories.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cI always say to people, \u2018On your laptop, if you want to go from Photoshop to Microsoft Word, you don\u2019t get out your soldering iron and start rewiring. It\u2019d be laughable if you had to, but that\u2019s how we used to do it. In the \u201940s and \u201950s, you programmed a computer by pulling and plugging wires, but you don\u2019t do that anymore because it\u2019s reprogrammable. And that\u2019s what the biology is.\u2019\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThe name of the game here is communicating with the cells. This is not about stem cells or gene therapy or scaffolds made of nanomaterials. Those are all tools that might be useful, but the real trick here is to communicate to a group of cells, what do you want them to build? And that\u2019s what the bioelectric code is all about; it\u2019s about communicating to the collective, to the cellular collective.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cWe can detect incipient tumor formation and we can prevent and normalize tumors after they form \u2026 not by killing the cells with chemotherapy, but by electrically reconnecting them to the group such that they can form, again, a memory of what they\u2019re supposed to be doing.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cJust imagine this standard Judeo-Christian version of Heaven. Let\u2019s say you, your pet snake, and your dog get to Heaven. Everything is great, there\u2019s no more damage, there\u2019s no decay, nothing is damaged, everything is great, everything\u2019s fantastic. For the next trillion years, what happens? The snake may be fine doing snake things for every day is the same as every other day, may be fine. The dog, not sure. Probably okay chasing rabbits on the farm, may be fine for forever, basically. The human though, what do you think? What are the odds that a human cognitive system can be sane for an infinite \u2014 okay, I\u2019ll keep myself busy for the first 10,000 years, maybe 100,000 years, but a billion years in, are we still sane? What happens?\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIf you make a circle of cognitive things and living things, I think cognition is wider than life. I think cognition predates life and I think it\u2019s bigger than life.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s entirely possible that in these AIs the thing we have forced them to do, which is to talk, and the thing that we\u2019re all obsessed about or the things it says could be a complete red herring as far as what kind of intelligence is actually there, what does it want? How do we communicate with it? The verbal interface that we\u2019re all sort of so glued in on might not be the interesting part of that equation.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThis field of diverse intelligence combines artificial intelligence and engineering and cybernetics and evolutionary biology and AI and exobiology and the search for alien life. All of these things are, together, asking what are actually the common threads of being an agent \u2014 no matter what your origin story, whether you were designed or evolved or engineered, or whether you were made of squishy proteins, or whether you were made of silicon or something else.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIf you\u2019re like a five-year-old and you do that thing where you keep asking, \u201cBut why? But why?\u201d If you keep asking \u201cBut why?\u201d long enough, eventually you always end up in the math department.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Michael Levin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2025\/08\/27\/kevin-tracey-vagus-nerve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Want to hear<\/a> another episode with a pioneer of bioelectric medicine?<\/strong> Listen to my conversation with neurosurgeon and researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2025\/08\/27\/kevin-tracey-vagus-nerve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dr. Kevin Tracey<\/strong><\/a>, in which we discussed stimulating the vagus nerve to tame inflammation, treating rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune disorders without drugs, the FDA-approved SetPoint Medical device, credible vs. bogus vagus nerve stimulation approaches, the inflammatory reflex, auricular therapy, heart rate variability, the connection between depression and inflammation, <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2025\/08\/27\/kevin-tracey-vagus-nerve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Most Has My Attention Right Now \u2014 Credible (vs. Bogus) Vagus Nerve Stimulation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CAVoeiFiick?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>This episode is brought to you by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/tim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShipStation<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Whether you\u2019re selling on eBay, Amazon, Shopify, or over 100 other popular selling channels, ShipStation lets you access all of your orders from one simple dashboard, and it works with all of the major shipping carriers, locally and globally, including FedEx, UPS, and USPS.<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Tim Ferriss Show listeners get to try<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/tim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShipStation<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>free for 60 days.<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Just visit<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/tim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShipStation.com\/Tim<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>This episode is brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/fromourplace.com\/tim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Place\u2019s Titanium Always Pan\u00ae Pro<\/a>! <\/strong>Many nonstick pans can release harmful \u201cforever chemicals\u201d\u2014PFAS\u2014into your food, your home, and, ultimately, your body. 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