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The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman

Evolution 2.0

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Xenobots Are a Machine That Runs Around

Zenobats can build copies of themselves out of loose cells. If you just sprinkle a bunch of loose cells they will run around, corral them together and turn into xenebots. And then they do cool things like they run mazes. You have multipled generations of bots doing this. This is von norman's dream right of a machine that runs around and collects parts,. They do cinematic self repplication. The whole thing was figured out by these selvs on the fly, within forty eight hours, in the completely novel configuration. Aint, the's no creature that reproduces by cinematic sell for replication.

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