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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Free Will an Illusion?
Free will emerges when you try to simplify, tell a nice narrative about your environment. So that's true for even primitive organisms? I think so. The sense of agency is really useful to accomplishes tasks, simple or complicated. We're very good at detecting agency of medium-sized objects moving at medium speeds in the three-dimensional world. But imagine if from the time that we were born, we had innate senses of your blood chemistry. If you could feel your blood chemistry the way you can see, right? You had a high bandwidth connection and you could feeling your blood chemistry."
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