Michael Levin
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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situation, sensitization, um, they can count to small numbers, things like that.
So you get that uh sort of for free, so to speak, from the math, j right at the very beginning.
And when we talk about purpose, um you can sort of define, you know, purpose versus goals, right?
Do you know you have a purpose?
I mean, that's kind of a metacognitive uh, you know, sort of thing.
But but the ability to navigate that space using the tools that we associate with um some level of intelligence, I think goes all the way down.
We s we see it in extremely minimal systems.
We've even done
And uh, you know, my my background is is originally computer science.
And so I like like very, you know, very simple kind of algorithmic things.
And it turns out that even in very simple uh deterministic things like sorting algorithms and so on, you can find surprises that look like uh different kinds of problem solving that you have no business uh to expect from the algorithm that you thought you wrote.
So yeah, you know, to to me this these things uh uh start start very low down and and we just
Just have to be d to do a uh to do experiments to to to see if we can find them.
Yeah, I mean something very interesting about this concept of beneficiary is also related to um valence and reward and punishment.
So so we can all see that you can right, you can you can reward and punish a paramecium, uh simple enough.
Um, but then you can ask yourself, what what does it actually you know if I started backwards and I say to people, okay, uh, can I punish a chemical network?
And they say, Well, absolutely not, and then and then you show them paramecium, well, well, what's this?
Because because you can do that here, right?
And uh
what what we're finding that's really interesting, and this will be this this paper will be out in I don't know, hopefully, hopefully soon.
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