Lex Fridman

Do you ever think about what creatures are in there?

I just had a conversation with Michael Levin at Tufts University.

He's this biologist who creates biological life forms in the lab, but he also studies all kinds of weird, what he calls unconventional intelligences on Earth.

And he speaks about that from a perspective of just understanding

the incredible intricacies and weirdnesses of biological systems.

So, you know, the soup of organisms that's there in the floating forest is probably incredible.

You ever think about, like, what kind of weirdness is there?

Yeah, but in a bored kind of way.

Like, it wouldn't even... Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's truly incredible majestic creatures though.

Your level of knowledge and comfort with snakes is incredible.

I think they sense that.

I mean, I've just seen you with snakes.

They must sense in you the camaraderie.

You have a way of speaking to animals and about animals like there's zero danger.

From my outsider perspective, it seems like a lot of them are full of danger if you're not communicating to them correctly.

Speaking of somebody that does have camaraderie, there's this incredible video on your Instagram that people should go watch where the spider monkey was drowning and you jumped in to rescue.

But people are just listening or you need to go watch the video.