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Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Constraints of the Substrat
There is a larger region where you don't have any head at all, but the starting state of your organism. And then you try to get from this larger region to the one in which you want to be. So there are some constraints at the level of the substrate that are battling with the functional constraints that the organism wants to realize to fulfill its function. Sometimes you cannot satisfy this and you end up with two heads because you don't know which one you get rid of or how to digest one of the heads and so on. This is an interesting constraint that you have to solve for when you are dealing with reality.
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