Michael Levin

Once you've done that, and by the way, one of the values of doing that is that you can simulate biological processes because in biology, you know, if I have like a frog face and I scramble it with all the different organs, every tissue is going to rearrange itself so that ultimately you have, you know, nose, eyes, head, you know, you're going to have an organ, right?

So you can do that.

But OK, fine.

But you can do something else cool.

Once you've done that, you can do something cool that you can't do with a standard algorithm.

You can make a chimeric algorithm.

What I mean is not all the cells have to follow the same algorithm.

Some of them might follow bubble sort.

Some of them might follow selection sort.

It's like in biology.

What we do when we make chimeras, we make frog allotals.

So frog allotals have some frog cells.

They have some axolotl cells.

What's that going to look like?

Does anybody know what a frog allotal is going to look like?

It's actually really interesting that despite all the genetics and the, and the developmental biology, you have the genomes, you have the frog genome, you have the axolotl genome.

Nobody can tell you what a frog is going to look like, even though you have, you have, this is, this is the, this is the back to your question about physics and chemistry.

Like, yeah, you can know everything there is to know about how, you know, how the physics and the, and the genetics work, but the decision-making right.

Is like baby, baby axolotls have legs.

tadpoles don't have legs.