Michael Levin, frontier biologist and friend of the pod, joins me to talk about why aliens might want to visit Earth, if we agree that a fire hydrant is a fire hydrant, and why the Star Wars cantina makes sense.

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GUEST LINKS
Mike's Twitter: @drmichaellevin
Mike's website: drmichaellevin.org
Mike's Ted interview: The Electrical Blueprints That Orchestrate Life

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer
Heraclitus' Fragments
Theory of Forms, Plato
Galton board
Brain in a vat
Pythagoras

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