#146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of

Try Mind Lab Pro, The Universal Nootropic For A Sharper Brain: https://www.mindlabpro.com/?a_aid=67fd1cb8d9ad3&a_bid=6d45f5c3Join The Outskill Claude Mastery Sprint (2 Days, Free): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMin Zhao is the UC Davis professor whose lab discovered the first genes ever found in electrical signalling — proof that every cell in your body runs on a current, not just your brain. He can reverse the polarity of a field and watch a living cell physically turn around and walk the other way.Expect to learn why every wound in your body generates its own measurable electric current, how a single postdoc's "failed" experiment revealed a force that overrides genetics, how reversing an electric field can make a cell physically turn around mid-migration, how a damaged potato generates the same electrical signal that guides wound healing in humans, why Min stops short of fully agreeing with Michael Levin on whether cells count as agents, and where the fight between bioelectricity and genetics currently stands.Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:20 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Wound Healing0:07:20 Your Skin Is Secretly Electric (And So Is Everything Alive)0:11:09 The 200-Year-Old Discovery Hiding in Every Wound0:15:19 The Postdoc Result That Changed the Whole Lab0:19:19 How Do Cells Know Where to Grow? (Five Fingers, Not Six)0:21:19 The Potato Experiment That Reveals How Infections Start0:25:24 Reverse the Field, Watch a Cell Turn Around0:38:10 The Bioelectricity Nobody Taught in Biology Class0:44:17 Is Bioelectricity More Fundamental Than Genes?0:45:33 "No Electricity, No Life"0:49:14 When Electric Fields Override Genetics Entirely1:03:40 Michael Levin's Xenobots, Debated1:12:22 Do Cells Have Agency? The Fuzziest Question in Biology1:15:16 To Be Continued... (Members Get the Rest)... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedMichael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyMPhilip Ball — Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SseGx0R0fYDenis Noble — Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw-DaWVK24Michael Levin & Earl Miller — Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mU5nN5nlLAGuest LinksUC Davis Faculty Profile: https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/zhao.htmlZhao Lab (UC Davis Dermatology): https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/research/lab/zhao.htmlGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G7-zWBcAAAAJ&hl=enNeuroengineering at UC Davis: https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/min-zhao-md-phdUC Davis Profiles (Publications): https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/min.zhao