
Michael Levin TAMEs Life - 66th Conversation
Computing Up
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What Is It About Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen That Makes It a Chicken?
If all of these atoms are arranged in this fashion and let go in the typical way that they will go it'll produce a chicken. I think fundamentally the 50,000 cells whatever it is that if you hadn't gone and messed with it with your needle uh it would have made one chicken or one human. There's tons of redundancy and degeneracy all over the place where there's tons of redundancies and degeneracy throughout an entire system. And again this is all very I think generic these dynamics are very generic but but plenary so Let me tell you this wacky story about plenary plenary are these flatworms okay Uh they have some interesting properties yeahUh exactly um"
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