Michael Levin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So so interestingly enough, that same uh information dynamic is true not only for uh uh cognitive systems within their lifetime, but actually for embryogenesis and for evolution as a whole.
Because we might think that embryogenesis is stereotypical, that basically every every embryo just follows the same rules that that the past lineage has.
But what we see by by and but and that's what normally happens under normal circumstances, but when you start uh
Uh
investigating that that cognitive system by putting barriers between it and its goal, meaning trying to deflect it from the thing it's trying to build, you find out that no, it actually has incredible um creative uh problem solving capacity to it it it doesn't take that the the meaning of that genome literally at all.
It takes them the the molecular mechanisms that are encoded by that genome as affordances, which it can reshuffle in new ways.
And this is there are some amazing uh you know, I've talked about this
some amazing ways that uh that uh embryos and other morphogenetic systems manage to make a new th a new thing under a new environment in circumstances where all of its parts have changed, like massive change.
They can still figure out how to get the job done.
by not doing it exactly the way their ancestors did, but by uh creatively finding a new solution in this problem space.
So so I think so I think there there are two aspects of this.
One is that creative interpretation of what your memories, whether they be the genetic memories of your lineage or the actual behavioral memories of a of a mind, what do your memories mean?
And then there's the other question of, okay, but but y you are a metabolic pattern, you're a ship of thesis that exists in
In in in various other spaces.
These memories are other kinds of patterns.
Some of them have some degree of of agency as well, anywhere along that spectrum that we talked about.
And what are their goals?
Are their goals to proliferate through as many minds as possible?
Is it to persist?
Is it to grow?
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