I had surgery which left me with scar tissue; years later another surgery removed it, and I carefully padded and taped over it, hoping it would settle at skin l

I had surgery which left me with scar tissue; years later another surgery removed it, and I carefully padded and taped over it, hoping it would settle at skin level. It pushed on, I got nurses to apply chemical cauterization, it still filled out until it was back the same as before, then stopped. Maybe 1 cubic cm of flesh. That's not in my DNA, I wasn't born with that, why did it grow and why did it regrow both times differently to how I grew from conception? See also this talk by Prof. Michael Levin, same guy as your podcast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 - titled "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System", including from the top comment by keithwhor: " - Organism morphology seem to be highly dependent upon large-scale electrical potential differentials between cells - These electrical networks are primarily regulated by cell-to-cell gated ion channels; simple chemical pumps (the same types of membrane proteins that control faster-acting electric potentials that enable muscle contraction, neural activity) - These networks and patterns of bioelectric signalling have stable memory (once a pattern between cells is induced, it remains stable) and are responsible for driving "subroutines" of large groups of cells -- morphological gene, protein expression downstream of this "