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quote: Michael Levin

• this is a cancer approach that we work on which is to not to kill those cells but to force them to re reconnect to their neighbors and when they reconnect to the neighbors they once again become part of the collective that's working on making nice skin nice muscle they stop being metastatic and they they go back

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• Michael refers to cancer as a "memory wipe" where they have forgotten the normative programmed narrative of bodily / collective / multicellular unity

quote: Michael Levin

• the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist.

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• adjacency between
  • nondual awareness
  • self-construct
  • self is illusion
  • singular, solid, enduring control agent
• adjacency statement
  • nondual awareness is the deep insight that there is no solid, singular, enduring control agent.
  • creativity is unpredictable and spontaneous and would not be possible if there were perfect control

example - control agent - imperfection: end

triggered insight: not only are thoughts and actions random, but dreams as well

• I dreamt the night after this about something related to this paper (cannot remember what it is now!)
• Obviously, I had no clue the idea in this paper would end up exactly as it did in next night's dream!

• it's kind of a miracle that a collection of individual cells with their own agendas and their own ability to pursue various goals in physiological space and gene expressions, that there is a way to arrange those things that give rise to this emergent new self that operates in a different problem space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrEDUv29r0&t=159s

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• He also points out how contradictory many of the behaviors of the emergent, composite self is to the wellbeing of the individual parts.
• We are all aware of the many destructive behaviors that the emergent, composite human superorganism can participate in such as:
• drug addiction
• violence
• suicide
• poor diet
• lack of exercise
• destructive emotional behavior
• etc

• If you're going to have a collective intelligence, what is it going to care about? We don't have a good science of that

• all intelligence is collective intelligence

author: Michael Levin

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• Major evolutionary transition (MET) are milestones in evolution in which collections of distinct individual life forms unite into one cohesive collection due to improved fitness and begin to replicate as a new individual unit
• hence the Deep Humanity term individual / collective gestalt, developed to deal with the level of human organisms and the societies and groups they belong to, applies to evolutionary biology as well through the MET where a new higher level individual is formed out of a collective of lower level indivdiuals

• If one zooms in, you find out that we are all in fact collective intelligence