I noticed on youtube an excellent podcast called Target Cancer , hosted by Sanjay Juneja, about all the latest technologies and treatments for cancer, and decided to review two of its episodes which I find particularly important and informative, the one in which a guest was Jason Fung: The Surprising Link Between Intermittent Fasting, Diabetes, and Cancer. Dr. Fung Explains - Part 2 , and the one in which a guest was Michael Levin: Fixing cancer cells and Immortality . To me, there is no doubt about which of the two questions mentioned in the title of this essay is more important, it is cancer, however, the connection between them increases the importance of the other too. To an untrained eye in this issues, to which the existence of this web site may also come as a surprise: https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/ , let me sketch that connection. In his exposé, Dr. Fung uses this table to compare traits of three categories of living agents: The last row raises the question, i
I continued to follow Michael Levin on youtube, Michael Levin & Matthew Segall discuss Meaning, Matter & Memory in Developmental Biology and started to notice a rather strange comment repeated by that brilliant scientist. When people ask "Where is the information that controlls morphogenesis written?", he adds in that context the following question "Where does the shape of the bell curve of normal distribution that emerges in stochastic processes (like when dropping marbles into Galton board) come from?", trying to say that not everything has to be written somewhere, "we get some things for free from mathematics". And this is true, we get so many things like that, that is a whole point of applied mathematics, for example a trajectory of a stone thrown by hand is a parabola, it may degenerate to a line if we throw it vertically, and there is always a slight air resistance, but if we disregard that, we can ask the same question: "Where does p