Michael Levin
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So so I think this creative aspect, the the constraint is it's a it's kind of like a meta constraint.
The constraint is
You can't count on the past, then you can't take literally, you need to take the messages you get from the past, both your own memories and the genetic uh you know experience of your of your ancestry.
You take it seriously, but you don't take it literally.
And as a result of that, because you can't count on the the the details of the past.
You have to commit to a creative interpretation, which makes in for it makes for incredible plasticity.
It's why these tadpoles that Doug Blackiston and my lab made that have eyes on their tails, they can see out of the box.
You don't need new the the eye doesn't connect to the brain.
It connects to the optic nerve.
No problem.
No new rounds of selection and mutation.
No, they just they get they can see out of the box.
So all of this, this, this amazing plasticity.
Is be I think is because they could never depend on doing it the same.
I mean, maybe C.
elegans can, I don't know, you know, maybe nematodeska could or something, but but but most things.
Are are they they're gonna find themselves in all sorts of novelty and they never assume it was gonna be the same.
They have to cr solve the problem each time.
And that and that when when we actually we see this in the um in the evolutionary simulations that we do.
Because what happens is as you start simulating su uh this kind of unreliable and yet competent material, what happens is.
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