Michael Levin

I'll take two things that are considered to be very different things.

And I'll say, let's just imagine those as two points on a continuum.

What does that look like?

What does the middle of that continuum look like?

What's the symmetry there?

What's the parameter that I can, you know, what's the knob I can turn to get from here to there?

So those kinds of, I look for symmetries a lot.

I'm like, okay, this thing is like that way in what way?

What's the fewest number of things I would have to move to make this map onto that, right?

So those are kind of mental tools.

The physical process for me,

is basically, uh, I mean, obviously I'm, I'm fortunate to have a lot of discussions with very smart people.

And so, so in my, in my group, there are some, you know, I've hired some amazing people.

So we of course have a lot of discussions and some stuff comes out of that.

My process is, uh, I do pretty much, pretty much every morning.

Um, or I, I, I'm outside for sunrise.

And I walk around in nature.

There's just not really anything better as inspiration, right, than nature.

I do photography and I find that it's a good meditative tool because it keeps your hands and brain just busy enough.

Like you don't have to think too much, but you know, you're sort of twiddling and looking and doing some stuff.