Michael Levin

And what is a stress pattern that keeps itself together, moves around the body, causes damage, tries to keep itself going?

What level of agency does it have?

This suggests an entirely different set of approaches to biomedicine.

And anybody who's, let's say, in the alternative medicine community is probably yelling at the screen at life saying, we've been saying this for hundreds of years.

And yeah, and I'm well aware, the ideas are not new.

What's new is being able to now take this and make them actionable and say, yeah, but we can image this now.

I can now actually see the bioelectric patterns and why they go here and not there.

And we have the tools that now hopefully will get us to therapeutics.

So this is very actionable stuff.

And it all leans on not assuming we know mines when we see them, because we don't.

And we have to do experiments.

And by saying scratchpad, I don't mean it's not important.

When we get to talking about the platonic space, we have to talk about how important the interface actually is.

The scratchpad isn't unimportant.

The scratchpad is critical.

It's just that my only point is that when we have these formalisms of software, of hardware, of other things, the way we map those formalisms onto the world is...

is not obvious it's not given to us we we get used to certain things right but but who's the hardware who's the software who's the agent and who's the who's the excitable medium is is to be determined so this is the good place to talk about the increasingly radical weird ideas that you've been writing about you've mentioned it a few times the platonic space

So what happened was this crazy notion, which I'll describe momentarily.

I have given a couple of talks on it.

I then found a couple of papers in the machine learning community called the platonic representation hypothesis.