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Bioelectrical Morphogenesis — Currents That Command the Flesh
Case 1.7

Bioelectrical Morphogenesis — Currents That Command the Flesh

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We are not just discovering how life works. We are discovering that life has been running a parallel operating system the entire time. One that is hackable, scalable, and maybe, just maybe, aware in ways we have no language for yet.

So the next time you look in the mirror, remember: beneath your skin, billions of cells are quietly voting with electricity, deciding who you are right now. And somewhere in a quiet lab, someone just learned how to change the vote.

Disclaimer: These are creative stories. The discoveries are real, and I weave in a lot of the facts, but most of the story is made up fiction. Links to sources included for a deeper dive into the real facts and research.

Sources

https://drmichaellevin.org/research/spatial.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6815261/

https://news.uchicago.edu/how-bioelectricity-could-regrow-limbs-and-organs

https://wyss.harvard.edu/media-post/frontier-science-10-bioelectrics-w-michael-levin/

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00223-3

Music from #Uppbeat

https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/dirty-streets

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