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Mind precedes and is a superset of life; 'living' things are simply very good at scaling up parts' lowly competencies into aligned collective intelligences

Reframes the traditional life/mind hierarchy, supporting panpsychist implications.

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Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments

(2025) · Michael Levin

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Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments
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'Machines' and living organisms belong on the same spectrum because both can draw on ingressing forms to get more out than was put in
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Key implication drawn from the sorting-algorithm and biobot evidence.
The categorical distinction between physical agents (thinkers) and thought patterns can be dissolved: patterns themselves can be the agent, with the body as scratchpad
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Radical extension of diverse intelligence positing agency in non-physical patterns themselves.

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how far down does it go? (Cells? Subcellular biochemical networks? Particles?)
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Probes the lower bound of the continuum-of-mind claim implied by the Platonic space model.

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What is the relationship or overlap between the sets demarcated by ‘life’ and ‘cognition’?question0.822
Probes the boundary between life and mind.
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.817
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.810
Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
Scaling intelligence via expansion of cognitive boundaries through inclusion of others' stress-reduction in one's own homeostatic loops.claim0.807
Central thesis: expanding an agent's sensors and goals outward to include others' states creates bidirectional feedback loop that scales intelligence and increases compassion.
Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have maturedhypothesis0.802
The developmental ordering argument supporting consciousness as the bootstrap mechanism for intelligence
Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.801
Natural and artificial intelligence can be unified through world models and life-mind continuity principles.claim0.801
Core assertive position of the paper; frames AGI in continuity with biological intelligence.
A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.800
Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.