Michael Levin

When I make my continuum claim, then people try to come up, okay, well, what about this?

You know, what about this?

And I haven't found one yet that really shoots that down, that you can't zoom in and say, yeah, okay, but right before then this happened.

And then if we really look close, like here's a bunch of steps in between, right?

Pretty much everything ends up being a continuum.

But here's what I think is much more interesting than trying to make that line.

I think what's really more useful is trying to understand the transformation process.

What is it that happened to scale up?

And I'll give you a really dumb example.

And we always get into this because people often really, really don't like this continuum view.

The word adult, right?

Everybody is going to say, look, I know what a baby is.

I know what an adult is.

You're crazy to say that there's no difference.

I'm not saying there's no difference.

What I'm saying is the word adult is really helpful in court because you just need to move things along.

And so we've decided that if you're 18, you're an adult.

However, what it hides is what it completely conceals is the fact that

First of all, nothing happens on your 18th birthday, right?

That's special.