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  1. Jun 2025
    1. if we had uh internal sensors that you could feel the way that you have other senses, your blood chemistry, for example

      for - quote - umwelt - Micheal Levin - interscale cognitive communication

      quote - umwelt - Michael Levin - if we had internal sensors that you could feel the way that you have other senses, - your blood chemistry, for example, - you would have no problem recognizing that your liver and your kidneys were this intelligent symbiont that lived with you and kept you alive all day by moving you through these spaces that that we now don't recognize.

      observation - Levin notes the limitations of the human umwelt and a gedanken that if we had biologically evolved (or culturally evolve) other sensors, that could serve as the basis for inter-scale communication with cognitive systems within us at micro scales

      question - is interscale cognitive communication possible? If so,j what would it look like? What's it like talking to a cell?