Michael Levin
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1,198 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Is it to change?
I have no idea.
But I think we need to um be looking at it from both both perspectives because it is not obvious who's the agent and who's the data.
That's our framing.
Like you said before, that's what that's a framing that we bring.
And and how you map that onto reality is is there are multiple ways of doing that.
Well, that's interesting and
Yeah, yeah.
The basic basically because so so biology, both the kind that gives rise to our bodies and and th by extension what gives rise to our minds, is committed to the idea that
You you don't know what your substrate meant to anybody, including your past self, because it is labile.
But the biological substrate is unreliable.
This is uh this is one difference between us and and our com our current computer architectures, where you work like hell to make sure that all the data at every level stays exactly how you put it, right?
You don't, you know, when you're programming in a high level language, you don't think that your registers are gonna float off because the copper gets warm.
Like the whole point of a good computer is that.
But that does not happen.
In biology, it's exactly the opposite.
Biology commits from the beginning.
The material is unreliable.
We don't know how many copies of anything we're going to have.
We don't know if our parts are going to be the same.
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