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The proposed framework erases artificial distinctions between organisms and machines by framing all physical constructs as in-formed, to varying degrees, by patterns from the latent space

Central thesis statement of the abstract.

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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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Findings (1)

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Tadpoles with an eye induced on the tail (optic nerve terminating at spinal cord, not brain) perform in visual assays
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Cited (Blackiston & Levin 2013) as evidence of unexpected functional competency (a 'free lunch') not explained by design or selection.

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Living beings have no monopoly on the 'free lunches' provided by the ingression of patterns into the physical world
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Third core numbered hypothesis in the abstract; predicts machines can access the same latent-space benefits as evolved life.

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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.

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