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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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Evolution Is Good at Creating Hardware That Has a Stable Baseline Mode
Evolution is very good at accomplishing the goal of the job they need to do, but you get a freaking organism from one cell. I think that if you didn't know what embryonic development was, you would have no clue that what you're seeing is always going to make the same thing. The imperative to create the final you as you are now is there already. But it has a bunch of problem solving capacity such that if any, if any assumptions don't hold, if your cells are a weird size or you get the wrong number of cells, or there's a, you know, somebody stuck in electrode,. whatever, it will still get most of what it needs to do done
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