Michael Levin
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I think so, yeah, in many cases, yeah.
Problem solving.
There's a little bit of drama.
I think the drama is basically related to people having very fixed ideas about what terms mean.
And I think in many cases, these ideas are completely out of date with where science is now.
And for sure, they're out of date with what's going to be... I mean, these concepts are not going to survive the next couple of decades.
So if you ask a person, and including...
You know, a lot of people in biology who kind of want to keep a sharp distinction between biologicals and robots, right?
See, what's a robot?
Well, a robot, it comes out of a factory.
It's made by humans.
It is boring.
It is a meaning that you can predict everything it's going to do.
It's made of metal and certain other inorganic materials.
Living organisms are magical.
They arise, right?
And so on.
So there's these distinctions.
I think these distinctions, I think, were never good.
But they're going to be completely useless going forward.