Michael Levin

Intelligence is the degree of ingenuity that it has in overcoming barriers between it and its goal.

Michael Levin's "cognitive light cone" is a model for understanding intelligence and goals across living systems, defining the spatial and temporal scale of what an organism (or collective of cells) can care about and work toward, like a bacterium's focus on local sugar vs. a human's global concerns, essentially mapping an entity's potential goals onto a spacetime diagram to compare cognitive reach and computational limits. He uses this concept, linked to developmental bioelectricity and collective intelligence, to explain how life scales up problem-solving, from single cells to complex organisms, by expanding these goal-directed boundaries.

Michael levin advocates for eliminating the categorization of things and move to a continuum.

Science is great because it allows to say something with a few words.

Spiders webs depending on the effect of substances

Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (Tame): an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds.

Abstract

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances are disrupting familiar concepts in the philosophy of mind, and require new ways of thinking about and comparing truly diverse intelligences, whose composition and origin are not like any of the available natural model species. In this Perspective, I introduce TAME – Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere – a framework for understanding and manipulating cognition in unconventional substrates. TAME formalizes a non-binary (continuous), empirically-based approach to strongly embodied agency. When applied to regenerating/developmental systems, TAME suggests a perspective on morphogenesis as an example of basal cognition. The deep symmetry between problem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D (traditional behavioral) spaces drives specific hypotheses by which cognitive capacities can scale during evolution. An important medium exploited by evolution for joining active subunits into greater agents is developmental bioelectricity, implemented by pre-neural use of ion channels and gap junctions to scale cell-level feedback loops into anatomical homeostasis. This architecture of multi-scale competency of biological systems has important implications for plasticity of bodies and minds, greatly potentiating evolvability. Considering classical and recent data from the perspectives of computational science, evolutionary biology, and basal cognition, reveals a rich research program with many implications for cognitive science, evolutionary biology, regenerative medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Cognitive claims are really protocol claims.

When you tell me that something has some degree of intelligence, what you're really saying is, "This is the set of tools I'm going to deploy and

William James Definition of Intelligence

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

Automata fixed rules don't have the variable means of achieving a goal. Automata and the secret of life don't explain intelligence. When you block these entities from their goal, they will change their behaviour to achieve it. Homeostecic system?

Level of ingenuity. Having affordances to get across barriers are higher intelgience

Memories.

Patterns on excitable mediums.

Platonic State.

Mind-mind relationship has the same relationship than math-physics.

You can only see the patterns once they reveal themselves through the physical world. They need an interface.

A brain is a Think Client to this world

I think minds are not produced by physics. I don't think we create consciousness when we create a baby. Nobody's creating consciousness. What you create interface through which specifc patterns, we call minds, are going to ingress.

In Newtons world physicalism was already dead. The were already knew that there are non-physical properties that matter in the physical world.

What is Amplituhedron?