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Will & Meaning in Living Beings - Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Limitations of the Cellular Automaton

I think there's some very, very interesting limitations of that few. That's just because you're using that particular lens. And that lets you do certain things, but it also precludes you from doing many other things. I'm a micro reductionist. By the way, the whole thing is deterministic. These rules are totally deterministic. All that exists are these, these rules and these individual cells. There aren't any gliders. It's not that you're factually wrong as if you wanted to zoom in that way, anything that can be done in the universe, you could look at it that way.

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