Michael Levin

He has no idea that there's a geometric interpretation to this.

He is solving the problem that he sees, which is totally algebra.

You don't know anything about that.

But if there is an appropriate interface like this magic square, you guys can share that experience.

You can have an experience.

It doesn't mean you start to think like him.

It means that you guys are able to interact in a particular way.

Of seeing a thin slice of the world.

So the process is twofold.

One is to get a better understanding of

what the system, what space is the system navigating?

What goals does it have?

What level of ingenuity does it have to reach those goals?

For example, xenobots, right?

We make xenobots, this is, or anthrobots.

These are biological systems that have never existed on earth before.

We have no idea what their cognitive properties are.

We're learning, we found some things, but you can't predict that from first principles because they're not at all what their past history would inform you of.

So one of the things that we've been doing is trying to create novel beings that have never been here before.

The reason is that typically when you have a biological system, an animal or a plant,