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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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How Do Cellular Collectives Make Decisions?

We are all bags of cells. There is no cognitive agent that is like this single diamond. That's ev as unam onchanging. And so your goal is to ask, how do those parts bind together to make decisions as a collective? Individual cells don't know what a head is. But the collective sure does. They can navigate morpha space in this way that we don't understand the algarithms if we don't even ent een know how to how to think about this. We just have no models for this because it's too computationally complex or some other imprincipleres i don't think it'sBecause it's too complex, a way, is

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