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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And I I it only it took it took me years to actually get to what's really interesting about this, which is that the actual memories, like the fidelity of the memory.
is actually not what you need here at all because the actual memories of the caterpillar are useless to the butterfly.
It doesn't move the same way.
It doesn't care about leaves.
None of the details matter.
The details are completely irrelevant.
But what you do inherit as a butterfly are kind of the deep lessons that the caterpillar learned.
And so you have to not only keep the information, you have to remap
and and and reinterpret that, whatever whatever n-grams survive the brain, you know, re-refactoring, those n-grams cannot be used the way the caterpillar used them.
You have to you have to reinterpret them in a completely new way, remap them onto a new sensory motor architecture and and everything else.
So
One can imagine that if there's that that process, uh if if if the if uh uh a a particular memory as an agent wants to survive that process, you cannot stay the same.
It's the same uh paradox that affects us all.
If you if you don't change, you will die.
If you do change, you're no longer yourself, so you're also not here, right?
Like that that that's it it applies to species, it applies to everything.
It's the paradox of change.
If if
If you're a memory that wants to survive that process, you cannot remain exactly how you are.
But you might have certain features that would make you more easily interpretable by the um the the the the butterfly brain.
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