#102 Meet The Scientist Proving Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent

William B. Miller Jr. is a Medical Doctor, Evolutionary
Biologist, and author of Bioverse and co-author of The Sentient
Cell — one of the most radical rethinks of biology published in
decades.


Every cell in your body is conscious, intelligent, and making
decisions right now. Evolution is not random. Cancer is not a
genetic accident — it's a highly intelligent system we've been
fighting completely wrong. And the central dogma of molecular
biology, the foundation of modern medicine, is broken.Expect to
learn why biology begins with intelligence not chemistry, why
every cell has preferences goals and experiences, why natural
selection is only half the story, how cancer cells are
intelligent agents and why that changes everything about
treatment, why genes are tools not bosses, why consciousness can
never exist in silicon alone, and much more





Timestamps:


00:00:00 Introduction & The Biology Revolution Nobody Is
Talking About


00:01:40 Biology Begins With the Intelligent Measuring Cell


00:05:09 Cognition All the Way Down: Is Even mTOR a Smart
Molecule?


00:07:20 Are Viruses Intelligent? The Strange World of Social
Virology


00:09:39 Defining Intelligence, Cognition and Consciousness


00:16:09 What Is True Biological Agency and Where Does It Begin?


00:17:20 The Constructal Law and The Biogenic Principle


00:21:09 What Separates a Biological Agent From a Machine


00:24:51 Free Will, Doubt and Why Miller Would Refuse To Stop
Believing In Agency


00:28:20 The Stem Cell That Searches For Its Identity


00:44:55 The Toxoplasmosis Moment: The Medical Observation That
Changed Everything


00:50:21 Slime Mould vs Water: How Do We Separate Agency From
Gradient Descent?


00:53:49 Why We Stopped Having Children: States of Preference Are
Running Evolution


00:56:06 Where Is Preference Encoded in a Cell?


01:03:30 The Senome: The Sensory Organ That Replaces Gene-Centric
Biology


01:07:17 Why Crick's Central Dogma Was Wrong: Information Never
Flows One Way


01:10:23 The Six Cellular Principles That Should Govern Human
Ethics01:14:47 How Single Cell Consciousness Becomes One Unified
Experience


01:18:16 Symbiogenesis, Mitochondria and The Birth of the
Eukaryotic Cell


01:20:36 Why It Took 1.4 Billion Years For Multicellular Life To
Appear01:28:09 Cognitive Selection: The Real Driver of Evolution


01:34:02 Michael Levin, Morphogenesis and Where the Body's
Blueprint Actually Lives


01:39:47 You Never Truly Die: Your Intelligence Flows Back Into
the River of Life


01:43:30 What Does All This Mean For Medicine, Biotech and
Society?


01:45:50 Why Cancer Is Intelligent and We Are Fighting It Wrong


01:48:31 AI Cannot Be Conscious — And That Might Make It a Better
Tool


01:49:21 The Future: Marrying AI to Conscious Biological Cells


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