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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Ends Justify the Means
The act of bending the option space, that's really profound. Every system has some degree of intelligence in its own problem domain. Biology constructs this from scratch. The world that built us is the one we reject in some sense when we construct human societies. We have to construct ethical systems under which we don't take seriously the full mechanism of biology and apply it to the way the world functions. And somehow that allows you to have turtles on top of turtles, literally, dump systems on top of dump systems that as a whole creates something incredibly smart.
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