A Conversation with Michael Levin | GoodAI

Evolution doesn't produce specific solutions to specific environmental problems. It produces problem solving machines. Machines that can solve problems in other spaces.

Cells Vectors by Vecteezy Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor at the Biology department of Tufts University and serves as director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and the Allen Discovery Center. He speaks with GoodAI Senior Research Scientist, Jan Feyereisl, about the philosophical foundations of his work, which include theories of cognition that assert the goal-seeking behavior associated with the “self” is apparent at all scales of life. A conceptual shift from the viewpoint of the brain as the cognitive-engine of the body, Levin proposes tha

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