Thanks!

Damn how’d I miss this right down the road

1.3 billion. And to think universities have even more mind blowing endowments.

If you watch his podcast with Lex Friedman he doesn’t really make this claim. I would have to listen back but he doesn’t come to a complete conclusion as he is asked about the nature va nurture debate in it as well. Unless he’s updated the way he explains it in more recent talks since.

There’s something intuitive in the evolutionary process. Michael Levin points out how Plenarians, these one-inch words, can be cut up to 200 individual pieces and each one will grow to a regular Plenarian. He postulates the question of what tells the Plenarian to stop growing at one inch and why so symmetrical when it can be cut so much. Some would say “DNA” but he is a biologist who understands the answer is not so simple. Each piece develops it’s own cognition as if it’s an individual once it is separate, but such conflict of growth doesn’t exist once the creature reaches its full state. There’s an underlying executive condition that we don’t understand that guides the genetic information to achieve certain goals. Frog skin cells left in suspension eventually develop their own form and become xenobots and have the capability of developing its own methods of travel and communication, enough so that they can solve basic mazes. Something guides the genetic information we have to experience the world as it is. It’s not so simple as pressure and environment as anything can be scaled, just like how we know there were bigger insects before on earth. Why doesn’t evolution adapt an insect of the past to maintain its giant form despite the pressure from the environment? Couldn’t it have figured out a way to maintain itself? The executive element is the question and how it guides our genetics to adapt.

I’m sitting in Plant City right across their building 😂

Someone hated their client

If you have good human qualities you will always be attractive to others.

A Niven ring is just a variant. Again where do we get the resources to surround the sun when over 99% of the systems mass is literally in the star we’re trying to orbit.

For a sec I thought I was in r/rugbyunion and was confused why did we suddenly opened the sport to space 😂

Honestly like when people start fantasizing Dyson spheres around the sun when you need over 1 million earths to fill the sun like where do we even have the resources for that? All this talk about advancing us into the stars while the poor are still poor. We just want to move our problems elsewhere without acknowledging we’re the same.

Everything’s close even if it’s far, plenty of nature, diversity of hobbies and even if it’s not in RI it’s right across the border, colleges, sports, food in abundance and diversities of cultures, artistic culture. History. Modernization. You can be put and about or chill at home. As long as we don’t turn too into Boston 2.0 we’re pretty set. Hopefully we get a new school too for Pawtucket though I feel for people who will get the short end of the stick in that. A night school I worked at was limited in their own way.

Ooooo thanks for revealing a tip. I love my night sky over my house and could use this.

Go help them if you’re such a good person people like you are a waste of humanity.

Because he’s an elitist like the other knobs on the hill.

Lex Friedman’s podcast with Michael Levin sort of shows that in biology cells and systems basically work as collectives and become one intelligence by the interaction of gap junctions, where essentially cells forget about their individual barriers and meld together as one collective. In that Levin mentions how each level of biology has an agenda to follow and for every level the parts sum to the higher level of the collective. Essentially you add to a collective regardless of what level you’re on, the question is simply what direction you’re eventually going. He also mentions xenobots, where they removed skin cells from tadpole eggs and the cells eventually turned into little bio machines that can navigate mazes and self replicate, which isn’t the method of production of frogs. The cells outside of a collective develop their own methods. So it’s as if they’re always programmed with a direction, so individual actions can occur as well separate from the collective. Tough to make heads or tails with it.

What’s really made it worse if I may ask? I don’t pop around there too often.

Second this!

I’m thankful I’m half Colombian as this store is responsible for many good memories I appreciate haha.

Francesca’s down Pawtucket Avenue. The plaza at the end of Blackstone Boulevard with Wildflour, Radoi, Moonstar, Garden Grille, and Antonio’s is a good spot too. Craft Burgers and Beer is a good spot too when I was big on craft beer. Gotta stop by again sometime.