Michael Levin
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The history of environments that got you to this point.
If you say, yeah, OK, so this is what your environmental history was.
And by the way, you got something completely different.
You got these other skills that you didn't know about.
That's really strange, right?
And so then what people say is, well, it's emergent.
And they say, what's that?
What does that mean?
And they say, besides the fact that you got surprised, right?
Emergence often just means I didn't see it coming.
You know, something happened.
I didn't know that was going to happen.
So what does it mean that it's emergent?
And people say, well, and there are many emergent things like this.
For example, the fact that gene regulatory networks can do associative learning.
Like, that's amazing.
And you don't need evolution for that.
Even random genetic regulatory networks can do associative learning.
I say, why does that happen?
And they say, well, it's just a fact that holds in the world.