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Michael Levin TAMEs Life - 66th Conversation

Computing Up

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Is the Genome Encoding a Frog Encoded a Virus?

Biologists have given up rightly the idea that the genome encodes the phenotype. The standard story is that it encodes some local rules and then eventually something very complex will happen. i think that's only a half maybe not even half the story, he says. "Treating them as learning and uh and decision-making agents gives you way more power"

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