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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
Evolution and the Evolution of the Animals
The more competency you have, the harder it is for selection to pick the most genome. It hides information, right? And so that means that, so what happens, you know, evolution basically starts all the hard work, is being done to increase the competency. I think in planaria, what happened is that there's this runaway phenomenon where all the effort went into the algorithm such that we know you've got a crappy genome and can't keep track of it. What survives are the algorithms that can create a great worm no matter what the genome is.
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