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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There's a couple of ways to to warm up to it.
One one is to think about, look, here here are here are here's a continuum.
A fleeting thought, right?
There's a there's a mental pattern that comes, it goes, it's gone.
Not not much, not much agency there.
Well, then you get some persistent and and repetitive thoughts.
Those are harder to get rid of.
And they do something interesting.
They do a little, and you you may have more to say on this than I, they do a little bit of niche construction on the brain.
If you have certain kinds of thoughts, they will actually modify your brain such that you will have more of those thoughts, right?
So so ecologists would say that's that's niche construction.
Then
Then we can go past that and we can think about something like an a like a like a personality fragment or an altar, right?
Not a full human personality, but also not just a repetitive thought.
It's got a little bit of, you know, it has some goal-directedness, it will actually do stuff in the world to sometimes screw stuff up for some of the other personalities.
Like it really has some agent.
And then you have a full uh a full human personality, and maybe past that some sort of a a transpersonal thing that people have talked about.
So
So we can easily see how how there's a continuum here.
And I think that some of these thoughts and you and and you can imagine uh as patterns within a cognitive medium, think like um an easier way to think about this is the uh caterpillar to butterfly transition.
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