New podcast w/ @drmichaellevin & Pamela Lyon!
Do our cells have cognition and memory which changes how we view medicine?
We rethink cognition & discuss:
- Cognition and creativity is not merely associated with the brain and nervous system
- Implications of this view of cognition for regenerative medicine and longevity
- Is stress response the source of our creativity?
Links below. Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Our view of cognition is incorrect
7:50 What does biology have to say about cognition?
11:12 Cognition in xenobots
13:20 Cognition and cooperation in microbes
29:03 Bioelectricity and cognition
32:58 Is stress response the source of our creativity?
42:27 Mike’s paper: Stress-sharing as a cognitive glue
46:31 Implications of cognition not only being associated with brain
55:55 Cognition in AI
1:01:33 View of cognition in the East
In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past. https://t.co/2hodOpwQMN
Zoinks! Two of my photos published in the @nytimes today, part of an excellent interview with @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman.
https://t.co/Tr6CqWaWJW
Got complexity? I spoke with @LHDnets about the difference between complicated and #complex--and the launch of the new journal #npjComplexity. https://t.co/igyyZMgoSl
Are we all doomed? "Doom is a state of mind," @adamsobel writes in @Nature. Made me think of Zadie Smith's 2014 @nybooks essay: "I found my mind finally beginning to turn from the elegiac what have we done to the practical what can we do?" https://t.co/01tA4spiCS
I interviewed @zeynep about the morality of #AI, social media, #climate change, capitalism & nuclear weapons. What's the glue? She says: valuing the short-term interest of powerful people, rather than the long-term interest of people in general. Read more:
https://t.co/dD9KXlD7qU
“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.”
— Wendell Berry
Got (enough) trees? @uvmvermont research in the @guardian today shows threat to #climate change efforts via #tree planting: not enough seedlings. Not even close to enough.
https://t.co/YYCCYFfURJ
NEW: Sixty years later, researchers have analyzed the sediment of an abandoned arctic military base and made a major scientific discovery. https://t.co/hIY5QyYrn5
5/5 plus a placement in @USATODAY. How many ways can I spell "cognitive dissonance" considering how delighted and worried I am while looking at the same photo?