Michael Levin's controversial Platonic Space paper officially passes peer review
JRIngallinera · x · 2026-09-10
Biologist Michael Levin announces the peer-reviewed publication of his 'Platonic Space' paper, which he says drew more pushback than any position in his career — from serious critiques to pleas to drop it. Core claim: minds are patterns that can operate in biological or non-biological bodies; bodies are merely the medium through which patterns act on the physical world.
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