Michael Levin

So some people will say, I don't care what else.

If your theory says to me that thermostats have little tiny goals,

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

So that's it.

I just did like, that's my philosophical, you know, preconception.

It's like thermostats do not have goals and that's it.

So, um, so that's one way of doing it.

And some people do it that way.

I do not do it that way.

And I think that we can't, we can't, I don't think we can know much of anything from an hour from a philosophical armchair.

I think that.

All of these theories and ways of doing things stand or fall based on just basically one set of criteria.

Does it help you run a rich research program?

Ah, boy, yeah, that's a deep question.

No, there definitely is.

And a lot of the poetry comes in when we realize that none of the categories we deal with are sharp as we think they are, right?

And so in the different areas of all these spectra are where a lot of the poetry sits.

I have many new theories about things, but I, in fact, do not have a good theory about consciousness that I plan to trot out.

So

I think it will come.