I think constructive theory will be a very important underlying conceptual tool to tackle the problem of understanding consciousness and so on. I never thought about it contrasting people with a universal constructor. It is much more general than universal computer. And then there is this phenomenon that's happening with intelligent life, with humans or possibly other creatures around in the universe. One fruitful question is how is that, how is a human being different from the universal constructor? So does it, is it more powerful? Well, yes, it should be because it can come up with new ideas while universal constructor can only produce things that you program it for. There are also some intuitions that we don't know yet how to address

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