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The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman

Evolution 2.0

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Is There a Plan in the Genome for the Organism?

i was going to ask you to tell the tubul story, because, well, both that story and the zenabot story, in my mind, obliterate a previous way of looking at things. If you always thought that quirrels and salamanders and babies and crickets are all generated by this algorithm, like robotic programme, that's kind of like stamping out fenders in a car factory. And right. So what does this tell us? It tells us that the organism is a, it's not a recipe. It's a set of relations that the parts of the organism are trying to get to, like a tadpole face. Am i describing this right

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