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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

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Is There Room for Poetry and Engineering?

Is there room for poetry and engineering or no? There definitely is. A lot of the poetry comes in when we realize that none of the categories we deal with are sharp as we think they are right. I have many new theories about things, but I in fact do not have a good theory about consciousness that I plan to trot out so. You almost don't see it as useful for your current work to think about consciousness. And you want to grow into engineering always. Well, I mean, I don't. So, so, so if we really tackle consciousness per se in terms of the hard problem,. I don't, I don’t, that isn't necessarily going

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