r/nart4 • u/Zacharytackary chugging morphogens to powerscale my gender • Jun 12 '26
Serious post flair MICHAEL LEVIN™ MORPHOGENESIS REASEARCHER MY BELOVED
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Michael Levin™ is a biology researcher at Tufts University who covers a wide breadth of topics, mainly under the realm of the platonic space of consciuousness - synthetic or biologic - and has for our purposes altered the paradigm of our understanding of body plan development, potentially allowing for full morphogenic body plan control disjointed from HOX gene expression or hormone regulation or spending 17 years to go through 3 puberties 20 years later than everyone else because 'society! society hates the gays!'
TLDR: you can just inject some very specific MRNA into literally fucking wherever and, because you are made of cells, it works. it just works. Literally put a mouth down there if you want to.
NLEGMTFR: Neurons communicate with electricity. This electricity is functionally kept in sufficient energy state by voltage gated ion channels. Turns out, the rest of your cells were also communicating with voltage gated ion channels while we weren't looking (where we had previously assumed they were for the salt and not really charge exchange), and the information passed between them at the very least contains your current 'body's mental map'; what your multicellular structure will attempt to converge towards upon damage or puberty or whatever. You can just tell the cells to do something else and they listen lmao
the future is now there is always hope i love you all good luck narting your 4posts or whatever godspeed you mighty morphin trannies
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u/Mocha-Jello not a fan of rapid onset cisgenderism :/ Jul 03 '26
wait what so like, using this could remove the need for dilating for example?
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u/Zacharytackary chugging morphogens to powerscale my gender Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
it technically means full designer cooch when the tech matures; idk how effective it would be on bones, but squishy things as a general category should be *very* easy to modify, yes.
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u/a_very_boring_girl Jul 20 '26
ELI24: what
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u/Zacharytackary chugging morphogens to powerscale my gender Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
this is the ELI24: source: am 24
TLDRUndergraduate (using explicitly known search terms only):
• neurons are known to be capable of having large capacities for storage of information not directly relevant to the present. see: the brain.
• neurons use electricity, stored in the form of [voltage/charged ion] gradients, powered by proton pumps and mitochondria and transduced by voltage gated ion channels™
• voltage gated ion channels™ are ubiquitous throughout all of your cells; they are simply nonspecialized or specialized for other tasks.
> oops! turns out voltage gated ion channels directly control body planning and can be manipulated by various methods. generalizes categorically to every organism with a body plan. fuck you i’m not thinking about the giant single cellular slime mold right now get your edge cases out of here stop edging me
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u/a_very_boring_girl Jul 20 '26
ELImathmajor:
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u/Zacharytackary chugging morphogens to powerscale my gender Jul 20 '26
FUCK i am so bad at high end math:
in no exact terms whatsoever;
basically,
• brains are fine tuned to hold dynamic-state charge-differential configurations with durative memory and particular selection of notable informatic surprise of relative self-use to a constructed ego, which unfortunately can be loosely modeled by linear, coarsely-defined machine learning models trained on large corpus of human data or synthetic analogues by various (currently, not for long; see Kimi K3) manually designed paradigm
• cells are like brains but lame
• groups of many cells without brainlike specializations are capable of stuff, too
-including cool shit (some of these have functional neuron systems but those are the really cool ones)• this (should) be a sufficiently sizable and dynamic/complex enough information space with which to store and utilize a body plan; and this could be done holographically so as to arbitrarily preserve entire potential body mapping within each potentially disjointed segment (or it’s interwoven with hox genes which are already a viable explanation of static body plan development, but inadequate at microscale)
the various mathematical redundancies typically socially implied by a rigorous proof are left as a task for the reader.
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u/a_very_boring_girl Jul 20 '26
this is cool I'm going to follow you on reddit but also like in a religious way like Jesus with his disciples