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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

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The Human Brain Is Incredible and Special

How special is the human brain in this full context of biology? Yeah. There's no getting away from the fact that the human brain allows us to do things that we could not do without it. We have to be really careful about treating the human brain as if it was some kind of like sharp binary category, you know, you are or you aren't. I don't believe that exists. It tells us that things that are not quite human brains may also have important cognitive status.

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