Michael Levin

Yeah, yeah.

Not yet, but you could imagine some really interesting connection, right?

But, you know, that's exactly what we're trying to half-ass when we judge judgment of beauty by facial symmetry and so on.

That's a half-assed assessment of exactly that.

Because if your cells could not cooperate enough to keep your organism symmetrical, you know, you can make some inferences about what else is wrong, right?

Like that's a very, you know, that's a very basic thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, what kind of hardware might their genomics give me that might be useful in the future?

And I'm not an expert on this stuff.

On peacocks?

Well, no.

But I'll take a stab at the reason.

I think that it's because it's an arms race.

You see, you don't want everybody to know everything about you.

So I think that as much as... And in fact, there's another interesting part of this arms race, which is...

the thing about this, uh, the, the, the most adaptive evolvable system is one that has the most level of top-down control, right?

If it's really easy to say to a bunch of cells, make another finger versus, okay, here's 10,000 gene expression changes that you need to do to make it to change your finger, right?

The, the, the, the, the system with good top-down control that has memory.

And when we need to get back to that, by the way, that's a question I neglected to answer about where the memory is and so on.

Um,