Michael Levin

Let's sequence the genome and see what happened.

Genomes are identical.

There's nothing wrong with the genome.

So if you ask the question, how does... So this goes back to your very first question is where do body plants come from, right?

How does the planarian know how many heads it's supposed to have?

Now, it's interesting because you could say DNA, but as it turns out, the DNA produces a piece of hardware that by default...

says one head.

The way that when you turn on a calculator, by default, it's a zero every single time, right?

When you turn it on, it just says zero.

But it's a programmable calculator, as it turns out.

So once you've changed that, next time, it won't say zero.

It'll say something else.

And the same thing here.

So you can make one-headed, two-headed.

You can make no-headed worms.

We've done some other things along these lines, some other really weird constructs.

So, so this, this, this, this question of, right.

So again, it's really important.

The, the, the hardware software distinction is really important because the hardware is essential because without proper hardware, you're never going to get to the right physiology of having that memory.

But once you have it, it doesn't fully determine what the information is going to be.