Michael Levin
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Right.
So you have a caterpillar, it's a it's a it's a soft bodied creature with a particular control, right?
Soft body means you can't push.
There are no hard elements to push on like you would with a robot.
Do you have with a hard bodied robot, you have to do different things.
And it lives
in basically a two-dimensional world.
It crawls around and it eats leaves.
You can you can um
And this is uh this is uh some old work by Doug Blackeston and and a number of other people.
You can train those caterpillars.
To there's a certain color cue, and then you crawl they crawl over and they find some leaves and you know they're happy.
That caterpillar has to become a butterfly.
In order to become a butterfly, that's a hard-bodied creature that lives in a three-dimensional world.
The brain is completely different.
So it has to tear down most of the brain, most of the cells die, most of the connections are broken, and you you make a new brain, you make a but you make a butterfly.
The memories persist.
Now that's amazing enough because you're like, wow, how do memories persist when you're refactoring the whole medium?
But
It's actually much more interesting than that.
Showing 1081–1100 of 1,198 · page 55 of 60
← Previous
Next →