Michael Levin
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You would not see that this thing can do delayed gratification.
It isn't there.
Now, there's two ways to look at this.
On the one hand, you could say, so the reductionist physics approach, you could say, did it follow all the steps in the algorithm?
Yeah, it did.
well then, there's nothing to see here.
There's no magic.
This is, you know, it does what it does.
It didn't disobey the algorithm.
Right, I'm not claiming that this is a miracle.
I'm not saying it disobeys the algorithm.
I'm saying it's not failing to sort.
I'm saying it's not doing some sort of, you know, crazy quantum thing.
I'm not saying any of that.
What I'm saying is other people might call it emergent.
What it has is our properties that are not complexity, not unpredictability, not perverse instantiation, as in sometimes in a life.
What it has are unexpected competencies recognizable by behavioral scientists, meaning people
different types of cognition, primitive.
Well, we want it primitive, so there you go.
It's simple.