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Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Thing in itself

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Is There a Bottom Out Where There Is Zero?

"I'm not going to say anything about what's alive because I actually don't know of a good definition for that," he says. "There has to be able, there has to be a reasonable story that could be told about you being a goal-directed agent." The ability to act with some dependency on either future states or events that happen long time ago and far away raises the chance that you're 'cognitive' Says elementary particles already have quantum indeterminacy which means they can take non local decisions.

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