
Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition
Thing in itself
Is It Possible to Go Backwards With Developmental Biology or Synthetic Bioengineering
I think the approach of going backwards has to be more helpful. You can deal with it empirically versus, if you like, whenever we have the, what are people said down and make definitions for what this is what life should be. And then let's go progressively find examples of it. That is where all the insights should come from. As we tend to think, as we begin to think more about nested hierarchies and, and synthetically engineered cognitive forms, I think those distinctions are going to get even more loose and confusing. We're going to be surrounded by creatures that defy description and use old categories in a new way.
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