Michael Levin on Physicalism being False

[PsychedelicEagle]

Got the interviewer mind-blown:

[zurew]

Aside from the fact that it is very interesting that he is supporting platonism (vervaeke had a big impact on him I think), his claims and some of his papers about algorithms are super interesting as well.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10597123241269740

Quote

The discovery of emergent problem-solving capacities in simple, familiar algorithms contributes a new perspective showing how basal forms of intelligence can emerge in simple systems without being explicitly encoded in their underlying mechanics.

 

Its such an insanely out of the box thing to suggest and to empirically test. 

 

This group of people being in one place is weird as hell 

 

Edited 23 minutes ago by zurew