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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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What Do All Cognitive Agents Have in Common?
I am both excited and terrified by that possibility. One of the glorious accomplishments of human civilizations is memes in digital space. Now, this could create memes in physical space. I also like anatomical compiler, a future system representing the long term endgame of the science of morphogenesis. It reminds us how far away from true understanding we are. Some day, you will be able to sit in front of an anatomical computer, specify the shape of the animal or plant that you want, and it will convert that shape specification to a set of stimuli that will have to be given to cells to build exactly that shape. No matter how weird it ends up being, you have total control.
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