Michael Levin preprint compiles anomalies—from metamorphosis memories to terminal lucidity—challenging brain-materialism
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-09-07
A new preprint by Karina Kofman and Michael Levin compiles biological and clinical anomalies—memories surviving caterpillar metamorphosis and planarian decapitation, terminal lucidity—that strain standard materialist paradigms of mind. Rather than adding epicycles, they ask what models naturally predict non-standard information flow across the multiscale living architecture.
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