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Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Thing in itself

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Theoretical Conceptual and Empirical Approaches

I don't think you can have armchair pre pre commitments to things like, well, you know, thermostats don't have goals. That's not called plainism. Can imagine a world where it is. So confusing. I'm rather pleased that the way that so far, uh, we've been able to tie in some novel experimental results to these kinds of theories that have given rise to them. And that makes me think We're at least a little bit on the right track basically. Yeah. Okay. The devil is always in the detail. Some of this stuff is testable. Some is not. For much of it, we're not smart enough to, to,

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