Michael Levin
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450 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Michael Levin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One is the unreliable medium, and the other is uh the fact that in in living systems you have problem solvers all the way down.
In other words, there are systems all the way down that are not just mechanically doing whatever they do, but they actually do have a homeodynamic and other
other problem solving c capacities.
And and that works what what what that ends up doing is
First of all, um the the the what one of the amazing things about the decompression side is that because you've lost information during the compression.
It means that the the right side of that bow tie is has to be creative.
I tend to think that the left side, the compression can be algorithmic, but the right side has to be creative because it's kind of like it in the on the cognition, and it's the same thing.
We don't have access to the past.
What we have access to are the engrams that was that were made by previous versions of you in your brain and body.
And then it's your job every, I don't know, 300 milliseconds or whatever it is, to continuously interpret.
interpret those things and build up a an ongoing uh a labile story of what you are, what what you're doing, what's the outside world, what do your memories mean?
And um in doing that, it's basically a semiosis because these are messages left for you from your past self.
They're just like messages you get laterally from from your, you know, from things that are going on at the same time.
And it's it's this process of of building the best story that you can that any
given moment, not necessarily the story you used to have.
And that becomes really interesting in in in development because
If you don't have if you if your allegiance is not to the fidelity of the interpretation, meaning I need to do it exactly the way my ancestors did.
But instead, what I think it's doing is I think it's a problem-solving agent that says, here are the prompts that I've been given.
What is the best thing I can put together right now?
And that results in some amazing plasticity in biology.
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