Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

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. 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 (more broadly, mind:body is as math:physics)”, he writes. “Bodies (whether living, engineered, or hybrid) are interfaces for a massive, multi-scale hierarchy of patterns to ingress into the physical world… specific patterns represented by biophysical, biomechanical, or chemical information fields serve as encoded setpoints for homeostatic or allostatic processes—in other…