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Hacking The Blueprint Of Life | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #37

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How to Grow a Wounded Wrecker

You can't sit there and assume that they are like wind up clocks. Need to experiments, which means trying different engineering strategies that target higher levels. And you'll say, ah, i've discovered that actually there is a perspective on the system that a takes advantage of the agency. Here's one example. You have a flat worm, a plenarian. Flat worms typically have one head and one tail. They're immortal because of that. In fact, they don't age. They don't have a life span limit. A amazing so, so, kso you got this flat worm. Now you manipulate that, which is much easier space to deal with. It helps some cases

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