Michael Levin

So what's going on?

We don't understand.

But it is a very curious thing that is not a prediction of... I'm not saying it can't, you know, you can take modern neuroscience and sort of...

bend it into a pretzel to accommodate it, you can say, well, there are these kind of redundancies and things like this, right?

So you can accommodate it, but it doesn't predict this.

So there are these incredibly curious cases.

Now, do I think you can copy it?

No, I don't think you can because what you're going to be copying is the interface, the front end, the brain or the whatever.

The action is actually the pattern in the platonic space.

You're going to be able to copy that?

I doubt it.

But what you could do...

is produce another interface through which that particular pattern is going to come through.

I think that's probably possible.

I can't say anything at this point about what that would take, but my guess is that that's possible.

For the interface.

So if you could, so here's my prediction for Star Trek Transporter.

For whatever reason, right now, your brain and body are very attuned and attractive to a particular pattern, which is your set of psychological propensities.

If we could rebuild that exact same thing somewhere else, I don't see any reason why that same pattern wouldn't come through it the same way it comes through this one.

That would be a guess, you know?