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The latent space of patterns is structured and can be systematically studied, rather than being a random grab-bag of emergent surprises

Foundational methodological claim enabling a research program rather than mysterianism.

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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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Questions (2)

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if our world is impacted by these patterns, where do they themselves come from? What is the origin of the Platonic space of patterns?
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Final open question of the paper, left deliberately unresolved.
Is [the Platonic space] discrete or continuous? Is it layered into some sort of levels or types?
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Open foundational question about the structure of the latent space left for future theory.

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Labeling surprising patterns as merely 'emergent' is a pessimistic, defeatist research-stopper that buys monism on the cheap
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Justifies rejecting the standard emergentist explanatory strategy in favor of positing a structured latent space.

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