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Xenobots self-assembled from frog skin cells exhibit kinematic self-replication across generations

Cited (Kriegman et al. 2021) as evidence that evolutionarily-unselected constructs display unpredicted novel competencies.

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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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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.
If concerted research reveals no quantifiable input from the Platonic space beyond conventional accounting, and yields no new discoveries or capabilities, the framework should be abandoned
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The paper's own falsifiability criterion for the entire research program.

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Empirical result from Kriegman et al. 2021: frog cell-derived synthetic organisms replicate without sexual reproduction.
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From Kriegman et al. (2021), a novel mode of reproduction never before seen.
Xenobots perform kinematic self-replication, a novel behavior not known in any other species on Earth, using a Von Neumann-style replication within 48 hours of creation.claim0.864
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From Blackiston et al. (2021) and Kriegman et al. (2020), reveals emergent goals from cellular collectives.
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Interpretive claim about the meaning of Xenobot behaviors.
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