Michael Levin's new slide: mind encloses matter, not the other way around
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-23
Biologist Michael Levin shared a slide from a talk given minutes earlier contrasting two worldviews: the conventional nesting (matter ⊃ life ⊃ mind) versus his inverted suspicion (mind ⊃ matter ⊃ life), where matter is 'non-replicating minimal cognitive processes', life is replication/evolution/maintaining a body, and mind includes unembodied patterns from latent space.
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