More on the destructive nature of unlived potential.

Why Get Together? How Life, Mind & Machines Evolve via Integration | Josh Bongard & Richard Watson YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution

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🚿🤔 Maybe we can think of projection as agentic? Seems like the Bergson passage above resonates with this. bsky.app/profile/thea...

Post from Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺 - YouTube Prof. Larry Nazareth recounts the fundamental difference in perspective that underlies the Cartesian and Bergsonian views of life and world. The former’s dic...

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Discussion #1 at the Platonic Space Symposium YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

What’s it like to be élan vital?

I think the shift in perspective that @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is pointing to here is the next Copernican Revolution.

Maybe this video is part of the incremental ingression and niche construction of this new pattern? 🚿🤔

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Martin Shaw is so great. I highly recommend his self-narrated audiobooks. Courting the Wild Twin is a recent fave of mine

Maintenance of imaginal disc plasticity and regenerative potential in Drosophila by p53 Following irradiation (IR), the DNA damage response (DDR) activates p53, which triggers death of cells in which repair cannot be completed. Lost tissue is then replaced and re-patterned through regeneration. We have examined the role of p53 in ...

Discs can regenerate even after large cell loss

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Transgressions of compartment boundaries and cell reprogramming during regeneration in Drosophila The reconstruction of damaged structures during regeneration requires cell reprogramming mediated by the up regulation of the JNK pathway and the transient debilitation of the epigenetic control mecha...

Disc cells reform boundaries and identity after damage

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Transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs: a model for understanding pluripotency and selector gene maintenance - PubMed Drosophila imaginal disc cells have the ability to undergo transdetermination, a process whereby determined disc cells change fate to that of another disc identity. For example, leg disc cells can transdetermine to develop as wing cells. Such events can occur after mechanical disc fragmentation and …

Disc cells maintain identity and can also switch fate (transdetermination)

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Gene expression following induction of regeneration in Drosophila wing imaginal discs. Expression profile of regenerating wing discs - BMC Developmental Biology Background Regeneration is the ability of an organism to rebuild a body part that has been damaged or amputated, and can be studied at the molecular level using model organisms. Drosophila imaginal di...

Fragmented discs can be transplanted and regenerate in vivo

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Regeneration and Transdetermination in Drosophila Imaginal Discs The study of regeneration in Drosophila imaginal discs provides an opportunity to use powerful genetic tools to address fundamental problems pertaining to tissue regeneration and cell plasticity. We p...

Gives me “electric face” vibes à la @drmichaellevin.bsky.social ‘s lab.

Lots of interesting research to check out:

Imaginal discs regenerate missing parts after damage.
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TIL: Inside a 🐛, “imaginal discs” hold the blueprint of the future 🦋 (imago), guiding wings, legs, and eyes—even regenerating correct structures after perturbation.

Stumbled across this in @askwilliamblake.bsky.social ‘s lovely book about William Blake, of all places.

"Ask yourself these simple questions: Where do I need to grow up, step into my life? What fear will I need to confront in doing so? Is that fear realistic or from an earlier time in my development?" ~James Hollis, Living an Examined

This is from Bergson’s Dreams. He clearly believed that memories have agency and are under positive pressure to come out when they sense the opportunity. Lots of resonance here with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social

Puts a twist on the phrase “It’ll come to me” when trying to remember something.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

#Painting, Vincent van Gogh, ‘Peasant Burning Weeds,’ 1883.

Discussion #1 with Katrina Schleisman and David Burke YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

It’s verbs all the way down

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From All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham

“Art is thus materialized dream.”

Stinkbugs Use Fungi as Living Shields for Their Eggs Against Parasitic Wasps Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. • Female stinkbugs of the species Megymenum gracilicorne cultivate symbiotic fungi on specialised glands in their hind legs, then deliberately coat their...

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All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham

Highly recommend this book. All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham

From All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham

My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.

@footnotes2plato.substack.com I’m curious whether this definition of “interface” resonates with you

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…can evolve to allow richer and broader communication between the two components on either side of the interface they share. I connect this concept to Corbin’s idea of “angels on the left” communicating with “angels on the right”. I imagine a fractal nesting of these component-interface triplets.

When @drmichaellevin.bsky.social uses the term “interface” I think of it differently than how Kastrup uses the term “dashboard”. An interface in software eng can be thought of as the defined protocol that allow different software components to communicate with each other. That protocol…

@drmichaellevin.bsky.social I think you’d dig this book

Henry Corbin via All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham

Out of the unconscious flows the well of life, and what you don't accept in yourself naturally falls back into that well and poisons it; when you don't recognise certain facts, they form a layer in the unconscious through which the water of life must come up, and it will be poisoned by all those things you have left down below. If they are accepted in your conscious life, then they are mixed with other more valuable and cleaner substances, and the odious qualities of the lower functions disappear more or less. They only form little shadows here and there, sort of spice for the good things. But by excluding them, you cause them to heap up and they become entirely evil substances; for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it. By Carl Gustav Jung from, 'Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, Vol. 2'. [Quote share by Thea Euryphaessa.]

Fabulous quote from Jung.

Mushroom Playing Keyboard Under an Oak YouTube video by BionicandtheWires

🔥New track dropped 🔥

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After Dinner Conversation (@afterdinnerconversation) Yes. So very yes.

Yes.

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