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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Think Death Mortality Is Fundamental to an Agent?
There's a philosopher named Ernest Becker who wrote the denial of death. And his whole idea is that one of the special things about humans is that we're able to sort of foresee our death. That in itself is the most, is the force behind all of the creative efforts of human nature. I mean animals probably don't think of death the same way but humans know that your time is limited and you want to make it count.
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