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Will & Meaning in Living Beings - Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University
The DemystifySci Podcast
The Consequences of Living in a Cold Mechanical Universe
Dwight: I once wrote this kind of weird, it's one of the few non scientific things that that I've ever written. It was a little conversation slash train of thought between two neurons in a brain. One neuron says to the other one, yeah, you know, we live in this cold mechanical universe that doesn't care what we do. And the other one says, no, I really get this weird feeling that it's there for a reason that it wants something. Dwight: Is it possible to have a universe where that doesn't happen? Right? Could we design an actual given that we found all this stuff in the current universe? The physics of interaction at the lowest
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