John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21)
About this episode
An interview with John Smart discussing the evolution of intelligence through developmental stages.
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with John Smart, Director of the EvoDevo Institute and a longtime futures theorist whose work spans accelerating change, developmental systems, and the long-term trajectory of intelligence. In this episode, we go deep on John’s view that intelligence does not evolve randomly, but instead progresses through constrained developmental stages - from chemistry to biology to nervous systems to digital cognition. He frames AGI as a...
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