Michael Levin

But there's a third perspective that I think is really interesting and useful.

And the third perspective is that of the memory itself.

If you take a perspective of the memory, so what is a memory?

It is a pattern.

It is an informational pattern that was continuously reinforced within one cognitive system.

And now here I am, I'm this memory.

what do I need to do to persist into the future?

Well, now I'm facing the paradox of change.

If I try to remain the same, I'm gone.

There's no way the butterfly is gonna retain me in the original form that I'm in now.

What I need to do is change, adapt, and morph.

Now, you might say, well, that's kind of crazy.

Well, how are you taking the perspective of a pattern within an excitable medium, right?

Agents are physical things.

You're talking about information, right?

So let me tell you another quick science fiction story.

Imagine that some creatures come out from the center of the earth.

They live down in the core.

They're super dense, okay?

They're incredibly dense because they live down in the core.