Michael Levin

No real agent can exist to dissipate that fast.

Okay.

We are all metabolic patterns among other things.

Right.

And so one of the things that, and so you see what I'm warming up to do here.

So, so one of the things that we've been trying to, uh, dissolve, and this is like some work that I've done with Chris Fields and others is this distinction between thoughts and thinkers.

So, uh,

All agents are patterns within some excitable medium.

We could talk about what that is.

And they can spawn off others.

And now you can have a really interesting spectrum.

Here's the spectrum.

You can have fleeting thoughts, which are like waves in the ocean when you throw a rock in.

You know, they sort of go through the excitable medium and then they're gone.

They pass through and they're gone, right?

So those are kind of fleeting thoughts.

Then you can have patterns that have a degree of persistence.

So they might be hurricanes or solitons or persistent thoughts or earworms or depressive thoughts.

Those are harder to get rid of.

They stick around for a little while.