Bret Weinstein

Yes, specifically I have alluded in a number of different places including here to there being another level to Darwinian evolution that does a lot of the heavy lifting that we require in order to explain the diversity of forms that we see in biology.

But I haven't been specific on what I believe that layer is.

And I felt like it was time.

I think, for one thing, the advances in AI mean that such things are going to emerge naturally.

And I wanted to put it on the table before it simply gets discovered as a matter of computing horsepower.

Right.

All right.

So let's talk biology.

And let me just say, you know, I know that's not everybody's bag, but I do think just about everybody has at some point listened to the story that we tell about adaptive evolution and wondered if

if it's really powerful enough to explain all of the creatures that we all know and love.

So the classic story is that you have a genome, that it contains a great many genes.

A gene is a sequence in DNA that results in proteins being produced.

The DNA describes exactly the sequence of amino acids in a protein.

And a protein would typically be one of two things.

It would either be an enzyme, which is a little bit misleading as a term, but an enzyme is a catalyst.

Catalyst is misleading.

It's really a machine that puts other chemicals together.

So a lot of the genes in the genome are these little molecular machines that assemble molecules.

And the other thing that proteins are likely to be are structural.

So something like collagen proteins can make a matrix that allows you to sort of build a sculpture biologically.