Michael Levin
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1,198 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Michael Levin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's too too far, right?
That you've got a there's a certain range that you can do.
And if you tell me that you you're working actively towards uh world peace and the state of the financial markets a hundred years from now, you're probably a human.
And if you tell me that
uh d in the linear range you can exert compassion for all the beings of the planet, not like a small number the way we can, but like all of them, then then you're be you know, you're some sort of bodhisattva or something or beyond human rights.
So so so so from the scale of your goals, you can kind of tell what you are.
So that's that's the basis.
That that's that's where I start.
And so we can say that a s so so to to define a self
You can define a system with and and by the way, all this is plastic.
So selves, the m the most uh salient thing about selves is that they're a process.
They're not a they're not a fixed thing, so they change all the time.
So ev all of this is plastic.
The scale of your goals are plastic.
The uh competencies with it with which you pursue those goals can change.
The problem spaces into which you project uh your your activities and and and those goals can also change.
But uh but a self is like this um
Uh I I I I think a useful version of the self is a pr a process that has several interlocked features.
And one of those features is uh the ability to uh to remember and to pursue goals in the in the cybernetic sense.
You you may not be aware you have goals and you may or may not have the metacognition to change your goals, but but but you're a goal-pursuing agent.
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