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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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Is There a Goal in the Brain?
The brain is a evolutionarily a late development. It's a system that is able to pursue goals in three dimensional space by giving commands to muscles. The very act of them getting together revealed the goal that was always there. There was always that potential for that goal. Every cell does not know some other cell's external environment. So with that border between you and the outside world, you don't really know where that is. every collection of cell has to figure that out from scratch.
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