Neil Gershenfeld

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Then it was a step for organisms to form family units, then family units to form villages.

You can view each of those as a stack in the level of organizations.

So you could view everything we've spoken about as the imperative of life

just the next step in the hierarchy of that, in the fulfillment of the inexorable drive of the violation of thermodynamics.

So you could view, I'm an embodiment of the will of the violation of thermodynamics speaking.

Yeah.

There's nothing deeper to consciousness than, it's a derived property of distributed problem solving.

There's nothing deeper to life than embodied AI in morphogenesis.

So why so much of this conversation in my life is

involved in these fab labs.

And initially it just started as outreach.

Then it started as keeping up with it.

Then it turned to... It was rewarding.

Then it turned to we're learning as much from these labs in as goes out to them.

It began as outreach, but now more knowledge is coming back from the labs than is going into them.

And then finally it ends with...

what I described as competing with myself at MIT, but a better way to say that is tapping the brain power of the planet.

And so I guess for me personally, that's the meaning of my life.

Yeah.

So you could take morphogenesis as a summary of this whole conversation, or you could take recursion.

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