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hypothesis:living-beings-have-no-monopoly-on-the-free-lunches-provided-by-the-ingression-of-patterns-into-the-physical-world

Living beings have no monopoly on the 'free lunches' provided by the ingression of patterns into the physical world

Third core numbered hypothesis in the abstract; predicts machines can access the same latent-space benefits as evolved life.

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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 (3)

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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.
Xenobots self-assembled from frog skin cells exhibit kinematic self-replication across generations
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Cited (Kriegman et al. 2021) as evidence that evolutionarily-unselected constructs display unpredicted novel competencies.
Anthrobots formed from human tracheal cells aggregate on neuron-culture wounds and induce healing across the gap
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Cited (Gumuskaya et al. 2024) as evidence that genetically-normal human cells can exhibit unselected functional behaviors.

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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
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Central thesis statement of the abstract.

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