Michael Levin

You might be on drugs and you might wake up tomorrow and say, my God, I had the craziest dream of being Lex Friedman.

Amazing.

It's a nightmare.

Yeah.

Who knows?

It's a ride.

Right.

But but but you see, I you know, it's it's not clear at all that that the that the physical poking is your primary reality.

That's not clear to me at all.

I think you can get there more easily by synthetic bioengineering in the following sense.

Do you feel a lack of X-ray perception?

Do you feel blind in the X-ray spectrum or in the ultraviolet?

I mean, you don't.

You have absolutely no clue that stuff is there.

And all of your reality as you see it is shaped by your evolutionary history.

It's shaped by the cognitive structure that you have, right?

There are tons of stuff going on around us right now of which we are completely oblivious.

There's equally all kinds of other stuff which we construct.

And this is just modern cognitive science that says that a lot of what we think is going on is a total fabrication constructed by us.

So I think this is not a, I don't think this is a, I mean, Descartes got there from a philosophical point.