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Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Thing in itself

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The Third Implication for Evolution

The way we build most of our technology, you hope that there's some intelligence at the higher level, but the parts are completely passive. The good news is that you never face the problem of robot cancer because they have their own agenda and the coordination is broken down. By having the parts be competent, it gives, it, it greatly smooths and alters the landscape of what evolution has to search for.

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