Michael Levin
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Nothing here knows anything.
There are rules of chemistry.
They roll forward, and this is what happens.
Okay.
Now, that model is testable.
We can ask, does that model explain what happens?
Here's where that model falls down.
If you have that model...
And situations change.
Either there's damage or something in the environment that's happened.
Those kind of open loop models do not adjust to give you the same goal by different means.
This is William James's definition of intelligence, the same goal by different means.
And in particular, working them backwards, let's say you're in regenerative medicine and you say, okay, but this is the situation now.
I want it to be different.
What should the rules be?
It's not reversible.
So the thing with those kind of open loop models is they're not reversible.
You don't know what to do to make the outcome that you want.
All you know how to do is roll them forward, right?
Now, in biology, we see the following.