Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
And, and certainly that's been my experience.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
So I feel, I feel like it's a, uh, the way, the way it feels to me is a collaboration.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
So the collaboration is, uh,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
I need to bust my ass and be prepped in one, A, to work hard to be able to recognize the idea when it comes, and B, to actually have an outlet for it so that when it does come, we have a lab and we have people who can help me do it and then we can actually get it out.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
So that's my part is be up at 4.30 a.m.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
doing your thing and be ready for it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
But the other side of the collaboration is that, yeah, when you do that, like, amazing ideas come.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
And, you know, to say that it's me, I don't think would be right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
You know, I think it's definitely coming from other places.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Um, let's see, uh, well, the first and most important thing I've learned is not to take too much advice.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
And so I don't like to give too much advice, but, um, but I do have one technique that I found very useful and this isn't for everybody, but there's a specific demographic.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
There's a lot of, a lot of, um, unconventional people reach out to me and I try to, um, respond and help them and so on.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
This is a technique that I think is useful for some people.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
How do I describe it?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
You need to... It's the act of bifurcating your mind.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
And you need to have two different regions.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
One region...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
is the practical region of impact.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#486 โ Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
In other words, how do I get my idea out into the world so that other people recognize it?