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

The DemystifySci Podcast

CHAPTER

The Conflict Between Life and Physics

I don't think there's any conflict as long as you don't try to make it binary. The conflict always comes at the intersection point when you say, okay, we got some physics here and we got some true cognition here that we have. And now with just the fact of embryonic development now tells you that you've already screwed yourself by making that distinction. But if there's not a binary distinction, then then you can think of it this way. It is a spectrum. What light, what the processes that are good at scaling it up, that's what we call life.

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