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How Life Works
Book • 2023
In 'How Life Works', Philip Ball presents a new vision of biology, revealing life as a complex system of multiple levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules—each with its own rules and principles.
The book explores how these levels interact and work together, leading to new possibilities in redesigning living systems and potentially regenerating limbs or creating new life forms.
The book explores how these levels interact and work together, leading to new possibilities in redesigning living systems and potentially regenerating limbs or creating new life forms.
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Mentioned in 7 episodes
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in relation to self-organization, multi-scale information sharing, and emergentism in biology.


Tim Scarfe

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What’s the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting.
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as the author of the book, and discussed throughout the podcast.


Tim Scarfe

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Philip Ball - How Life Works
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who has the book on his reading list.


John Vervaeke

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Dante, Blake, and the Power of the Imagination
Mentioned by Eric Topol, referencing the author's perspective on the complexity of life.

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Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne: The Holy Grail of Biology
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as a recent book he enjoyed that details many concepts about biological systems.

Evan Mcgloughlin

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#102 Meet The Scientist Proving Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
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, who was blown away by it, especially how random things were.


Lisa Feldman Barrett

Conversation 1 w/ Lisa Barrett, Ben Lyons, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault-Brown, and Karen Quigley
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as a truly amazing book detailing the best experimental evidence for how biology works.

Evan Mcgloughlin

#95 Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"
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when discussing the convergence of biology and cognitive science.


John Vervaeke

Lectern Live Launch Event — Reflections, Updates, and a Major Announcement
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as a book that challenges common misconceptions found in biology textbooks.

Evan Mcgloughlin

#94 Meet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot
Mencionado por Manuel como lectura sobre la explicación sistémica de la vida y la adaptación.

#170 Cómo entrenar teniendo en cuenta que tu cuerpo es un sistema complejo. Con Manuel Sola






