Comments by "Dmitry Kazakov" (@dmitrykazakov2829) on "Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318" video.

  1. Stasis looks like a big issue of the theory of evolution, because It would imply that there is no internal drive of evolution. It must be an external non-biological event to turn evolution on, not competition of species.
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  2. That is not consciousness. A bee can sense UV far better than we. Consciousness is about to constructing a model of the outside world and the inside world (self-consciousness). Primitive organisms operate on an implicit built-in model. Modern AI is less conscious than insects, somewhere on the level of a bacteria...
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