Michael Levin

And there's a bunch of different versions of it.

So there's two features to this.

One is that, what is it a map of?

Well, it's a map of various truths.

It's a map of facts that are thrust on you.

You don't have a choice.

Once you've picked some axioms, you just, you know, here's some surprising facts that are just going to be given to you.

But the other key thing about this is that it has a metric.

It's not just a random heap of facts.

They are all connected to each other in a particular way.

They literally make a space.

And so when I say it's a space of patterns, what I mean is it is not just a random bag of patterns such that when you have one pattern, you are no closer to finding any other pattern.

I'm saying that there's some kind of a metric to it so that when you find one,

Others are closer to it and then you can get there.

So that's the claim.

And obviously this is not, not everybody buys this and so on.

This is one idea.

Now, how do we know that this exists?

Well, I'll say a couple of things.

If that didn't exist, what is that a map of?