Michael Levin

"Richard, you should talk to Richard as well. He's an amazing guy and he's got some very interesting ideas about the intersection of cognition and evolution."

"So one of the things that we've been trying to dissolve, and this is some work that I've done with Chris Fields and others, is this distinction between thoughts and thinkers."

"So there was a guy named Bose well over 100 years ago who was studying how anesthesia affected animals and animal cells, and drawing specific curves around electrical excitability."

"All of these were, by the way, drawn by Jeremy Gay, who's this amazing graphic artist that works with me."

"So every week in our center, somebody gives a talk. We kind of discuss it. It all goes on this thing. I'll give you a link to it."

"And in terms of... Look, I'm very interested in life beyond Earth and all these kinds of things so that we should also talk about what I call SUTI, S-U-T-I, the search for unconventional terrestrial intelligences."

"So, this is the version 1.0 and there's a kind of update, a 2.0 that I'm writing at the moment, trying to formalize in a careful way all the things that we've been talking about here."