Import AI 474: Levin's Platonic Mindspace, TPUs in Space, Zhipu's Outer RSI Loop
The latest Import AI newsletter covers Michael Levin's philosophical paper proposing that minds may be patterns from a Platonic space, with bodies and machines as interfaces, and argues for non-physicalist models of mind that can be empirically investigated. It also reports on TPUs deployed in space and Zhipu's initiation of an outer RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) loop.
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Are minds patterns from a Platonic space, with bodies and machines as their interfaces, Michael Levin asks: …A mind-bending paper asking us to reconsider basic assumptions about philosophy and biology… Could the complexity in the world around us be better explained by there being a platonic zone of patterns of arbitrary complexity which seek to embed themselves in the world? That’s the big question at the heart of an iconoclastic paper from scientist Michael Levin. The argument: “I argue that the emerging sciences of synthetic morphology and diverse intelligence suggest non-physicalist models of mind and show how they can be empirically investigated… I propose that the relationship between mind and brain is the same as the relationship between mathematical patterns and the morphogenetic outcomes they guide
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