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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
A Collective Intelligence, That's the Beginning, Right?
There are many, many layers to this as always in biology. So, there are chemical networks. Or basically any kind of chemical pathway where different chemicals activate and repress each other, they can store memories. There are electrical memories like flip-flops where there is no physical. The information is in a stable dynamical sense. And if you were to x-ray the thing, you couldn't tell me if it was zero or one because all you would see is where the hardware is. You wouldn't see the energetic state of the system.
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