Michael Levin

Lex Fridman × Michael Levin

Michael Levin’s contrarian biotech thesis treats cells as persuadable agents, supported by anthrobots made from adult human tracheal cells that spontaneously heal neural wounds and appear roughly 20% younger by Horvath epigenetic clock.His proposed cancer therapy would reconnect electrically disconnected cells, while bubble-sort experiments suggest unexpected competencies and free clustering may challenge AI evaluation built only around observable language; the broader Platonic-space hypothesis remains a falsifiable 20-year wager.