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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
Lex Fridman Podcast
Embracing the Flexibility of the Body and the Mind
The way to think about creatures is that every creature is two things simultaneously. A creature is a machine of sorts, right? And it's run by an aqueous computer, right? So it's not identical to our technological machines. Every creature is both a machine that does things in the world sufficient to accumulate enough resources to continue surviving, to reproduce. It is also a potential. Each creature is potentially, for example, the most recent common ancestor of some future clade of creatures that will look very different from it. The ability to bootstrap a new software program and then drive it into the unconscious layer where it can be applied very rapidly may exist in robotics.
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