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Forms of life, forms of mind

Michael Levin · 10 Oct 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Discovery in the biosciences will involve using cognitive science tools and collaborating with material rather than micromanaging it.

    Their wordsMost critically, it means that discovery in the biosciences will involve use of tools of cognitive science, and learning how to communicate/collaborate with the material, not simply micromanage it as we do with (seemingly) passive matter.

  2. Our reading

    An intelligence ratchet may be embedded in the fundamental mathematics of the universe.

    Their wordsI suppose, in a sense I agree that an intelligence ratchet (paper coming in a few months) is embedded all the way down, as a free gift of the math.

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