Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
The Theory of Anything
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The Role of Genes in Interest
Interest is an example of genes influencing us because interest is a kind of desire so it's boredom. Computers don't have interests, we do. It's not too hard to see that the genes can if the genes really can influence us through pleasure and pain or unpleasantness in this case. Then the genes could affect our interests. We've got so many examples of this in real life. Well I mean it just seems to me that brains matter a lot. Right.
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