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Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Thing in itself

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Paramecia

The way to think about this is not to start with paramecia and go up, but to start with you and go backwards. And if having gotten to the position of an unfertilized Oocyte, you say that, okay, all I see is physics and chemistry. I see, I see zero cognition here. Then you have to tell me, well, at what stage, remember, we started at some reasonable level of human cognition. When did it wink out? If you, if we get to zero, you have to telling me when it, when it disappeared. So there's got to be cognition to, I think it has to be a continuum and I think it

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