Bodies, brains, and engineered constructs are pointers/interfaces into the Platonic space rather than the direct source of their own complexity

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• Is [the Platonic space] discrete or continuous? Is it layered into some sort of levels or types?question0.784
  Open foundational question about the structure of the latent space left for future theory.
• Beings with brains are, in an important sense, also collective intelligences.claim0.775
  Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.772
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.769
  Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.766
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.766
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.763
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• If Platonic forms are the non-material animating patterns of embodiments, then in a colloquial sense souls are real and some robots will embody themclaim0.760
  Provocative ethical/metaphysical implication of the framework for AI and synthetic biology.