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Today with Michael Levin and Anil Seth we talk about consciousness, computation, and the nature of life itself. More specifically:
The brain-as-computer metaphor is dead. You can’t separate software from substrate
Why BubbleSort (yes, the sorting algorithm) is secretly doing things NO steps in the code ask for
Why emergence actually DECREASES during conscious states (the opposite of what everyone expected)
The “spaces between the algorithm” where consciousness might actually live
The best part is that this theolocution between two of the world’s leading consciousness researchers happened in real-time, with them building on each other’s ideas and performing research together. You do not need any formal background in neuroscience, computer science, or biology to follow.
Both Anil Seth and Michael Levin have appeared on Theories of Everything separately before, but this is their first conversation together… and sp…
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