most creatures uh have this creative problem solving where the step one is to figure out what affordances do I have and and how do I put myself together into a some kind of a coherent organism and and survive and do other interesting things and this is why we can have xenobots and anthr robots and uh things that have never existed on Earth before but have novel coherent behaviors and morphologies

one of the things we study is the incredible plasticity of Life the fact that we can take living things and you know I can put a we can we can put a an eye on the tail of a taple instead of in their in their head and those animals can see perfectly well