Michael Levin

It's going to be either a biologist or a psychiatrist or who knows, but it's not going to be a physicist.

And the simple example is this.

Let's say someone comes in here and tells you a beautiful mathematical proof.

It's just really deep and beautiful.

And there's a physicist nearby and he says, well, I know exactly what happened.

There were some air particles that moved from that guy's mouth to your ear.

I see what goes on.

It moved your...

the cilia in your ear and the electrical signals went up to your brain.

I mean, we have a complete accounting of what happened, done and done.

But if you want to understand what's the more important aspect of that interaction, it's not going to be found in the physics department.

It's going to be found in the math department.

So that's my only claim, is that physics is an amazing lens with which to view the world, which are capturing certain things.

And if you want to stretch to sort of encompass these other things, we just don't call that physics anymore.

We call that something else.

Yeah, let's talk about it.

Well, first of all, of course it can.

I mean, it can help, meaning that I'm not saying physics is not helpful.

Of course it's helpful.

It's a very important lens on one slice of what's going on in any of these systems.