The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life

This puts me in mind of Rupert Sheldrake’s biomorphic field idea.

Levin:

"Basically, what happens is that these cells, by forming electrical networks much like networks in the brain, they form electrical networks, and these networks process information including pattern memories. They include representation of large-scale anatomical structures where various organs will go, what the different axes of the animal -- front and back, head and tail -- are going to be, and these are literally held in the electrical circuits across large tissues in the same way that brains hold other kinds of memories and learning."

This appears to be a fascinating breakthrough in understanding organismal development from a single cell to the entire animal. We (or some biologists anyway) already knew that all this information couldn't be in the DNA. The DNA is just the toolkit to produce the myriads of different proteins. The DNA is evidently not the blueprints and not the factory that from the blueprints assembles the different proteins into the cells and organs. These electrical networks investigated by Levin appear to be effectively the blueprints and the factory.

However, this work appears to be basically incomplete in that Levin doesn't seem to ever identify the mechanism of storage (with sometimes modification) of all this bioelectric information somewhere in the germ cell. If it's not in the DNA (genome), then where? It has to be stored somewhere from generation to generation, and it must be stored in some way that it can be modified  or altered with the new version carrying on to the new generation.

Another interesting article about this subject
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...ctric-code

Levin reasoned that if you could alter a cell's potential you can change how it would grow. And by changing the electric potential of many cells, he hypothesized that he could trigger the growth of a specific structure.

Levin believes one could take any cluster of cells in the body—including mature and fully differentiated cells—and override existing chemical and molecular signals by changing electric potentials. The signals would then direct growth into any shape desired, such as a new nose or eyes as well as manipulate them to repair a lost limb or correct birth defects.

Levin and graduate student Brook Chernet noticed a bioelectric signature associated with tumor-like structures, which offers a novel approach to spotting cancer.