Michael Levin

How do you figure out what its psychology is, what its level is, what does it?

And so we literally lay out a set of protocols, starting with the simplest things and then moving up to more complex things where you can make no assumptions about what this thing can do, right?

Just from you, you have to start and you'll find out.

So here's a simple, I mean, here's one way to communicate with something.

If you can train it,

That's a way of communicating.

So if you can provide, if you can figure out what the currency of reward of positive and negative reinforcement is, right?

And you can get it to do something it wasn't doing before based on experiences you've given it, you have taught it one thing.

You have communicated one thing that such and such an action is good.

So some other action is not good.

That's like a basic atom of a primitive atom of communication.

Yeah, most certainly.

I've seen cartoons.

I think maybe Gary Larson or somebody had a cartoon of these rats in the maze, and the one rat assists to the other.

You look at this, every time I walk over here, he starts scribbling on the clipboard that he has.

It's awesome.

Absolutely.

I think I read, I don't know any details, but I think I read something about how wheat and other things have domesticated humans in terms of, right?

But by their properties change the way that the human behavior and societal structures.

Yeah, that particular paper was a very short commentary on another paper that was written about crabs.