Michael Levin
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1,198 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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It has this amazing interface, this very thin interface whereby rewards and punishments, and now you've got a bag of tools from behavioral science.
And using those, now you're communicating with it, right?
And you're providing incentives and things like that.
And because this creature has that interface, you you don't even need to know much of anything about what's really inside in order to have some effective interactions with it, because it's going to do the hard part of taking the signals you give it and convert.
Converting it to its internal states and moving around the you know synaptic proteins and all that stuff.
And then and then sort of further on to the right of that system, you have humans and and there, you know, all it takes is is is some sometimes is a whisper of something that's a con uh a convincing argument.
And then they take it from there, right?
They they they buy into it or not.
They they might uh change the course of their life, they might start a revolution, who knows what they're gonna do.
There's tons of complicated things.
Things are going to happen, you didn't have to m micromanage any of that.
So, so and so now you're dealing so what are the tools, right?
So now you're dealing with the tools of psychoanalysis and psychiatry and things like that.
So um, so the argument uh basically I'm making is that.
What all of this is about are
It's it's not really philosophy.
It's empirical claims about which set of tools is going to apply.
And so now my claim is for n uh th for novel things, cells, tissues, organs, um novel uh synthetic biology constructs, weird minimal things that people in A-life make, or uh you know, active matter, droplets, all of these things.
You can't from a philosophical armchair, just like you were saying, the exp experiments are critical.
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