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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

The Quanta Podcast

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Is There Inertia?

Biophysicist simon sponver says, if you think of being selectively responsive to your environment, that's really the whole mark of life. And we use our brains to do that all the time, right? You watch with your eyes and recognize the situation around you, and you say, ok, i need to either ignore that or respond to that. So your kin a lot of these decisions about what to be responsive and what to be stable in your environment.

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