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Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Is There a Runaway Feedback Loop in Computer Science?
In planaria, there are no abnormal lines of planaria anywhere except for the only exception is our two headed line. And I think it's because they have been actually selected for being able to do what they need to do despite the fact that the hardware is just very junkie. David: If you translate this idea into computer science, a way to look at it is imagine that you find some computers that have heart discs that are very, very noisy and where the heart disc makes lots and lots of mistakes in encoding things. You can have an error correction code running on the heart disc at the low level that corrects this. But after some point, it doesn't become efficient anymore.
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