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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Difference Between Frog Skin and the Human Race?
I think we have to separate the sort of deep philosophical aspects of versus what actually happens. People with exactly the same anatomical structure kill each other on a daily basis, right? So I think it's clear that simply knowing that something else is equally or maybe more cognitive or conscious than you are is not a guarantee of kind behavior. We are on this planet in some way, incredibly lucky. You could easily imagine that there could be a planet somewhere with more than one equally or maybe near equally intelligent species. But then they may not look anything like each other, right? There may be multiple ecosystems where there are things of similar to human like intelligence and then you'd have all kinds of issues about
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