Michael Levin and Rafael Yuste, How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up

Evolution, it seems, doesn’t come up with answers so much as generate flexible problem-solving agents that can rise to new challenges and figure things out on their own.

— Michael Levin and Rafael Yuste, How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up (via)

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