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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There a Zero on the Scale of Cognitive Creatures?

When we are confronted with novel creatures, they might be bnovel byo engineered creatures. So when you are either creating or a reverse engineering novel creatures, the intentional stands becomes completely essential. And so to be somewhere on the scale of cognitive creatures, what's,. what's the base, manry? What's what's the minim minimal version that you would have to have? I would say, probably the minimum, you'd have to have two things: Some ability to do goald directed behavior and some internal control such that your am is not perfectly described by all the external influences around you at a given time.

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