New intelligence model could upend biology, genetics, medicine and AI

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An emerging model of intelligence finds flexible problem-solving capabilities at the cellular level and beyond – and it threatens to upend not just biology and genetics, but medicine, AI and consciousness research, among other things

These are some absolutely wild ideas, so before we get started, it's important to know that Michael Levin is no fringe scientist or crackpot. He's a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, as well as the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, and a co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms. He's co-authored several hundred research papers, with nearly 30,000 citations, and has a list of distinguishing awards as long as your arm.

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