
[Unlocked] Reflections & Extras from Michael Levin Podcast
Musing Mind Podcast
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Evolution Learned This Trick Long Before Brainsnd Muscles
i think the brain basically basicall evolution learned this trick long before brainsnd muscles showed up. So one thing that evolution might want to do is pick out a, let's, let's run our behaviour not just off of the local sugar concentration, but actually off of meta ism. Instead of measuring the outside world, you're measuring yourself. And so now what you're doing is your taking measurements off of, off of parts of parts of yourself, and then taking taking appropriate action. We are incredibly plastic to changes. Ourselves are constantly building these mode because we don't have any privileged way of knowing where the boundary is. Is the same way that you can measure and take actions
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