Michael Levin

It's stumbling around.

And I think that

back in the day when the options were it's dumb like machines or it's smart like humans, then of course the scientists went in this direction because nobody wanted creationism.

And so they said, okay, it's gotta be like completely blind.

I'm not actually sure, right?

Because I think that everything is a continuum.

And I think that it doesn't have to be smart with foresight like us, but it doesn't have to be completely blind either.

I think there may be aspects of it.

And in particular, this kind of multi-scale competency might give it a little bit of

look ahead maybe, or a little bit of problem solving sort of baked in, but that's gonna be completely different in different systems.

But I do think it's general.

I don't think it's just on earth.

I think it's a very fundamental thing.

I mean, so this is very controversial, and I don't know the answer, but people have argued that this is called, you know, sort of rewinding the tape of life, right?

And some people have argued, I think Conway Morris maybe has argued that there's a deep attractor, for example, to the human mind.

Kind of structure in that in that if you were to rewind it again, you'd basically get more or less the same thing.

And then other people have argued that, no, it's it's incredibly sensitive to frozen accidents.

And then once certain stochastic decisions are made downstream, everything is going to be different.

I don't know.

I don't know.