225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Intelligent Traffic Lights and Homeostasis in the Body
A conversation with an 11-year-old about making traffic lights smarter leads to the idea of homeostasis - the body's ability to maintain a set point of temperature, similar to how a smart traffic light could adjust based on the longest line. The speaker argues that this is not due to a homunculus and compares it to the debate between vitalists and mechanists in early 20th century biology.
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