Michael Levin

I think so.

Now, obviously, you have to scale down, right?

So they don't have the kinds of complex metacognition that we have, so they can do long-term planning and thinking about free will and so on.

That's right.

In all kinds of spaces, not just in obvious three-dimensional space.

I mean, we're very good.

The thing is,

Humans are very good at detecting agency of like medium-sized objects moving at medium speeds in the three-dimensional world, right?

We see a bowling ball and we see a mouse and we immediately know what the difference is, right?

Yeah, yeah.

That's our training set, right?

From the time you're little, your training set is visual data on this like little chunk of your experience.

But imagine if...

Imagine if from the time that we were born, we had innate senses of your blood chemistry.

If you could feel your blood chemistry the way you can see, right?

You had a high bandwidth connection and you could feel your blood chemistry and you could see, you could sense all the things that your organs were doing.

So your pancreas, your liver, all the things.

If we had that, we would be very good at detecting intelligence in physiological space.

We would know the level of intelligence that our various organs were deploying to deal with things that were coming, to anticipate the stimuli, to, you know, but we're just terrible at that.

We don't, in fact, people don't even, you know, you talk about intelligence in these other spaces and a lot of people think that's just crazy because all we know is motion data.