Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots

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Regarding Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal's
"Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots"

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[..] somehow, what we perceive is also what is encoded.

Jaimungal is asking about, say, Michael Levin's eyebrows: we perceive eyebrows, but there is also some concept of 'eyebrows' in the electrical pattern that binds his cells together into the service of producing, of maintaining, of being an eyebrow.

In effect I feel as though he is asking, is there in fact some objective truth to the object eyebrows and not just our phenomenal-cultural-speciesal[?] perception of the object eyebrows because they are produced by an electric pattern which encodes the object eyebrows? I think he's making the same mistake he's trying to avoid but on a different level: it's still our human-level perception of a piece of a pattern which we call eyebrows.