Thoughtforms Life

Conversation #1 with Diego Bohórquez and Mijail D. Serruya: how information moves levels in bodies

Thoughtforms Life

Show Notes

This is a ~59 minute working meeting where I introduce two very interesting neuroscientists to each other - Diego Bohórquez (https://medicine.duke.edu/profile/diego-v-bohorquez) and Mijail D. Serruya (https://www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/skmc/departments/neurology/faculty/serruya.html) and we discuss ideas around how information moves from the molecular to the behavioral level in bodies and how we might be able to interface with that system via technologies that could lead to biomedical applications and deep insight into diverse intelligence. At the end we discuss one such application briefly - McConnell's professor-burgers.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Gut brain biology foundations

(13:28) Neural interfaces and organoids

(26:18) Information across biological levels

(32:41) Environmental sensing and placebo

(47:32) Translating internal biological dialogue

(54:23) Collaborative next steps

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