Michael Levin: "The Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis"

"Words and Drugs Have the Same Mechanism of Action"

-Fabrizio Benedetti

Notes from video above:

High level information flows eventually have to impact the physics of whatever system you're talking about, and that interface between information and physics is where the interesting and deep question lie, and bio-electricity can help us. 

ie- The anatomical compiler (Draw the anatomy or animal form/function and it would compile that description into a set of stimuli that would have to be given to individual cells to get them to build exactly what you want. If you had the ability to do that it would communicate large scale anatomical goals to groups of cells. This is NOT something like a 3D Printer where you simply put the cells where you want them to be, this is not that. This is a communications device, it is a translator of your goals as the engineer or the worker in regenerative medicine to that of the collective at the cellular level. (Especially if you do a chimeric recombination of genetic materials to activate a specific feature of one of the two creatures from which the chimera has been constructed ie -Frogawattle) The axis of persuadability form the toolset.

Trophic Memory from Google AI (stored in each cell member of the cellular membrane collective or in the communicative medium between them?):

Trophic memory refers to the biological phenomenon where tissues or organisms retain a "memory" of previous injuries or environmental interactions, influencing future growth, regeneration, or structure. Primarily observed in deer antlers, this memory allows for the replication of trauma-induced shapes (like ectopic tines) in subsequent years.

Key details regarding trophic memory include:

Antler Regeneration Example: When a deer suffers an injury to an antler, a callus forms and heals. Even after the antler is shed, the following year’s growth will often reproduce a new, extra tine at the exact, remembered location of that previous damage.

Biological Mechanism: This suggests that the growth plate on the pedicle (on the scalp) maintains a physiological record of past trauma. Research suggests this may involve localized neural trophic centers or specific "centers of stimulation" within the frontal bone.

Broader Context: While famously associated with deer antlers, the concept relates to developmental biology, where cells, particularly in regenerative organisms like planarians, can retain epigenetic marks (histone, RNA) or structural memories from before fission or injury.

Trophic Factors in Brains: In neuroscience, "trophic substances" or factors (like Nerve Growth Factor) are molecules that support neuron survival, growth, and synaptic plasticity. They are considered vital in long-term neuronal changes, learning, and regeneration following brain injury.

Trophic memory bridges the gap between genetic coding and environmental experience, explaining how past physical experiences shape future morphology