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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
Evolutionarily the Most Adaptive Way of Being
Humans are arguably the first species that have invented the fear of death. So not like instinctual, but starting to contemplate the finiteness of life. If you're a goldfish and you have a 10 minute attention span, all of your goals are potentially achievable because you're probably going to live the next 10 minutes or whatever goals you have - they are totally achievable. But if you're a human, you could have all kinds of goals that are guaranteed not achievable because they just take too long Like guaranteed you're not going to achieve them.
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