Michael Levin

Let's just think about that.

There is a separation in time because...

the thing you're trying to make happen so that the temperature goes to a certain level is not true right now.

And all your actions are going to be around reducing that error, right?

That basic homeostatic loop is all about closing that gap.

When I said linear range, this is what I meant.

If I say to you, this terrible thing happened to, you know, 10 people and, you know, you have some degree of activation about it.

And then they say, no, no, no, actually it was 100, you know, 10,000 people.

You're not a thousand times more activated about it.

You're somewhat more activated, but it's not a thousand.

And if I say, oh, my God, it was actually 10 million people.

You're not a million times more activated.

You don't have that capacity in the linear range.

You sort of you sort of right.

If you think about that curve, we sort of we reach a saturation point.

I have some amazing colleagues in the Buddhist community with whom we've written some papers about this.

The radius of compassion is like, can you grow your cognitive system to the point that, yeah, it really isn't just your family group.

It really isn't just the hundred people you know in your circle.

Can you grow your cognitive light cone to the point where, no, no, we care about the whole, whether it's all of humanity or the whole ecosystem or the whole whatever.

Can you actually care about that the exact same way