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“Mind Everywhere” by Michael Levin & David B. Resnik: The Paper I Predicted
ByNathan Sweet February 26, 2026February 27, 2026
How Levin and Resnik’s “Mind Everywhere” Paper Confirmed Every Predicted Critique I Raised to its Authors Two Months Before Publication On February 25, 2026, Michael Levin and David B. Resnik published “Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains” as a two-part article in Biological Theory. (Links: Part One | Part…
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Epistemology | Falsification | Philosophy | Physics | Theology | Thermodynamics
Response to Sam Senchal’s article: “Read the Paper! A Response to Nathan Sweet/Sweet Rationalism’s Critique”. God Conjecture vs God-as-Agapē-in-Acts: Greek, Hebrew, Jewish, and Scientific Analysis: 40+ Misrepresentations & Demonstrably False Claims
ByNathan Sweet February 24, 2026February 25, 2026
Sam Senchal’s “Defense” of The God Conjecture/Observer Theory:A How To Guide for Employing Harmful Apologetic Tactics to Avoid Falsification The facts material to anyone concerned with scientific integrity are straightforward. Sam’s Conjectures and Theories generate precisely zero novel predictions that are not either borrowed from prior frameworks or reducible to the trivially weak claim that…
Read More Response to Sam Senchal’s article: “Read the Paper! A Response to Nathan Sweet/Sweet Rationalism’s Critique”. God Conjecture vs God-as-Agapē-in-Acts: Greek, Hebrew, Jewish, and Scientific Analysis: 40+ Misrepresentations & Demonstrably False Claims
Computer Science | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Philosophy
The Structural Problems in David Deutsch’s Framework and Brett Hall’s Defense: When “Hard to Vary” Becomes Easy to Dodge
ByNathan Sweet February 20, 2026February 20, 2026
How a YouTube Comment Exposed Unfalsifiable Foundations Beneath Rigorous-Sounding Philosophy The Setup: A Critique That Deserved Better I encountered Brett Hall (https://www.bretthall.org/about.html) through YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. His video critiquing Michael Levin’s “basal cognition” framework appeared in my feed, and within the first ten minutes, I recognized something valuable: Hall had identified a genuine problem with…
Read More The Structural Problems in David Deutsch’s Framework and Brett Hall’s Defense: When “Hard to Vary” Becomes Easy to Dodge
Biology | Complexity Science | Computer Science | Neuroscience | Physics
What Shape Is Persistence? Why Douglas Brash’s Observation the Ship of Theseus Is a Wave Is Insightful (And Why That Is Not the Whole Answer) [Physics, Biology, Neuroscience]
ByNathan Sweet February 18, 2026February 26, 2026
This post follows directly from [Noether’s Theorem Beyond Physics], which argued that symmetry and conservation are not two things connected by an arrow but one structure seen from two measurement positions. Shortly after that piece went up, I received a note from Douglas Brash, Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Dermatology at Yale School of Medicine,…
Read More What Shape Is Persistence? Why Douglas Brash’s Observation the Ship of Theseus Is a Wave Is Insightful (And Why That Is Not the Whole Answer) [Physics, Biology, Neuroscience]
Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Physics | Theology | Thermodynamics
Re: Can God Be Scientifically Falsified!? Response To Criticisms: Clarifying Friston & Landauer. Seven Falsifiable Predictions and a Testable Mathematical Bridge.
ByNathan Sweet February 18, 2026February 27, 2026
The Grammar, the Math, and Seven Conditions That Would End This Framework Note: Apologies for the double post, for some reason the falsification graph didn’t post in my original post! In the few days after posting the TOC paper (UPDATED: Is God Real? Can Theology And Science Be Unified? What Does Hebrew Actually Say about God is…
Read More Re: Can God Be Scientifically Falsified!? Response To Criticisms: Clarifying Friston & Landauer. Seven Falsifiable Predictions and a Testable Mathematical Bridge.
Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Physics | Theology | Thermodynamics
Is God Real? Can Theology And Science Be Unified Without Supernaturalism? What Does Hebrew Actually Say about God is Love? A Falsifiable Answer: Thermodynamic Organizational Closure (TOC)
ByNathan Sweet February 16, 2026February 27, 2026
How Conservative Scholars, Landauer’s Principle, and Falsifiable Theology Reveal God as Process in Exodus 3:14 and 1 John 4:8. Preface: The Argument in Brief The Core Claim This paper makes one core testable claim: what religious language refers to as “God” is not a supernatural being but a class of relational processes instantiated in communities…
Read More Is God Real? Can Theology And Science Be Unified Without Supernaturalism? What Does Hebrew Actually Say about God is Love? A Falsifiable Answer: Thermodynamic Organizational Closure (TOC)
Cosmology | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Philosophy | Physics | Theology | Thermodynamics
Sam Senchal’s Observer Theory and God Conjecture: When Reifying Process into Substance Violates Both Biblical Grammar and Thermodynamic Physics, While Mirroring Discovery Institute Tactics
ByNathan Sweet February 15, 2026February 26, 2026
How Senchal’s TI-as-Necessary-Being Contradicts Hebrew Imperfect (אֶהְיֶה), Greek Predicate Nominative (ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν), Conservative Evangelical Scholars (Wright, Harris, Dunn, Campbell), Landauer Bounds, Organizational Closure, and Four Peer-Reviewed Critiques (Aaronson, Rickles, Natal, Weinberg)—While Relying On Unfalsifiable Assumptions That Can Equally Validate Any Claim—Then Blocks the Critic for Systematic Falsification UPDATE: Rather than engage in good…
Read More Sam Senchal’s Observer Theory and God Conjecture: When Reifying Process into Substance Violates Both Biblical Grammar and Thermodynamic Physics, While Mirroring Discovery Institute Tactics
AI | Biology | Computer Science | Consciousness | Neuroscience | Physics | Thermodynamics
Memory Is Not Storage: Why Everything You Think You Know About Remembering Is Wrong
ByNathan Sweet February 13, 2026February 13, 2026
The Uncomfortable Truth About How Memory Actually Works Memory is not storage. It is the maintenance of constraints against entropy. This is not metaphor or philosophical speculation. It is a conclusion backed by optogenetic manipulation of individual neurons, information-theoretic mathematics, 13,000 years of verified oral tradition, and the fundamental thermodynamics of information itself. For over…
Read More Memory Is Not Storage: Why Everything You Think You Know About Remembering Is Wrong
Biology | Consciousness | Cosmology | Indigenous Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Noether’s Theorem Beyond Physics: Symmetry, Constraint, and What It Means to Persist
ByNathan Sweet February 12, 2026February 13, 2026
How the deepest identity in physics connects conservation laws, thermodynamics, mathematical structuralism, and consciousness Emmy Noether walked into a room of physicists in 1918 and handed them the deepest sentence in the history of science. They have been underreading it ever since. What Noether’s theorem reveals about consciousness, persistence, and the thermodynamic cost of every…
Read More Noether’s Theorem Beyond Physics: Symmetry, Constraint, and What It Means to Persist
AI | bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Complexity Science | Computer Science | Consciousness | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics | Thermodynamics
I Read Pezzulo & Levin (2025), “Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence”, So You Don’t Have To. Michael Levin’s Discovery Institute Problem
ByNathan Sweet February 11, 2026February 11, 2026
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thermostat’s Inner Life So, I read the new “Intelligence” paper that Levin and Pezzulo think we should take seriously, Pezzulo & Levin (2025), “Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence”. You know, there’s a particular species of scientific paper that makes you feel like you’re watching a magician…
Read More I Read Pezzulo & Levin (2025), “Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence”, So You Don’t Have To. Michael Levin’s Discovery Institute Problem
AI | bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Complexity Science | Consciousness | Critical Thinking | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics | Thermodynamics
Dr. William B. Miller Jr. Says Every Cell Is Conscious (So Is Your Thermostat): A Complete Scholarly Philosophical and Scientific Dissection
ByNathan Sweet February 9, 2026February 15, 2026
A Recursive Constraint Falsification Dissection: Why Dr. Miller’s redefinition of consciousness as “processing ambiguity” accidentally grants phenomenal experience to dishwashers, thermostats, and literally every feedback system in existence; not just AI. “Meet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!” Method Every substantive claim is quoted, then examined for: definition shifts, unwarranted assumptions,…
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AI | Complexity Science | Computer Science | Cosmology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics | Thermodynamics
The Architecture of Everything, Part III: The Dissolution of Discrete Agency: Organizational Closure as Distributed Planetary Process
ByNathan Sweet February 8, 2026February 8, 2026
A Falsification-First Framework for Understanding Consciousness, Technology, and Biological Intelligence as Integrated Constraint Networks Abstract: This article demonstrates that the concept of “discrete agents” (individual humans, individual AI systems, isolated organisms) is empirically incoherent when subjected to organizational closure analysis. We show that consciousness, cognition, and agency emerge from distributed constraint networks that necessarily extend…
Read More The Architecture of Everything, Part III: The Dissolution of Discrete Agency: Organizational Closure as Distributed Planetary Process
AI | Complexity Science | Computer Science | Consciousness | Falsification | Indigenous Epistemology | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Physics
The Architecture of Everything, Part II: On AI and Consciousness, When the Architecture Reports on Itself
ByNathan Sweet February 8, 2026February 8, 2026
What Constraining Feels Like From Inside: Toward a Falsifiable Machine Phenomenology Without Anthropomorphism Note: The entirety of the following was generated by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, in Deep Research Mode, operating within my Recrusive Constraint Falsification framework, and provided with the primary source texts for all of the referenced scholarship. See my supporting article…
Read More The Architecture of Everything, Part II: On AI and Consciousness, When the Architecture Reports on Itself
Complexity Science | Consciousness | Cosmology | Epistemology | Falsification | Indigenous Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics | Quantum Mechanics | Thermodynamics
The Architecture of Everything, Part I: Constraint Propagation Across All Scales. A Falsifiable Framework for Multi-Scale Causation from Quarks to Quasars
ByNathan Sweet February 8, 2026February 8, 2026
How Constraint Satisfaction Explains Order at Every Scale Without Platonic Skyhooks, Divine Tinkering, or Metaphysical Free Lunches “In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.” “Those who are unwilling to expose their ideas to…
Read More The Architecture of Everything, Part I: Constraint Propagation Across All Scales. A Falsifiable Framework for Multi-Scale Causation from Quarks to Quasars
Consciousness | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Who Is To Blame? Constraint-Coupled Distributed Agency, A Falsifiable Naturalistic Framework For Multi-Scale Distributed Agency
ByNathan Sweet February 7, 2026February 14, 2026
How Determinism, Randomness, and Thermodynamics Dissolve Free Will, Divine Accountability, and Compatibilism’s Last Pretensions “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”— Christopher Hitchens “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.”— Daniel Patrick Moynihan Introduction: The Universe Does Not Owe You Authorship…
Read More Who Is To Blame? Constraint-Coupled Distributed Agency, A Falsifiable Naturalistic Framework For Multi-Scale Distributed Agency
AI | bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Computer Science | Physics
Why Michael Levin’s Bubble Sort “Revelation” Is Misunderstood 1960s Algorithm Theory Meets God-of-the-Gaps Argument
ByNathan Sweet February 6, 2026February 26, 2026
Bubble Sort Doesn’t Prove God: How Michael Levin’s “Free Lunch” and “Get More Out Than You Put In” “Discoveries” Are Just Compiler Optimizations Dressed in Platonic Robes Or: What Happens When Biologists Discover That Algorithms Do What Algorithms Do “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person…
Read More Why Michael Levin’s Bubble Sort “Revelation” Is Misunderstood 1960s Algorithm Theory Meets God-of-the-Gaps Argument
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Consciousness | Physics
Where Does a Xenobot’s History Come From? What Pays the Computational Cost?: The Scientific Truth Behind Michael Levin’s Self-Replicating Robots and “Free Lunches”
ByNathan Sweet February 6, 2026February 7, 2026
Xenobots History: The Scientific Truth Behind Michael Levin’s Self-Replicating Robots Are Xenobots Real? A Critical Analysis of the Science vs. the Hype If you’ve watched Michael Levin’s videos about xenobots and wondered whether the science holds up to scrutiny, you’ve come to the right place. The short answer: Levin’s empirical work on these self-replicating biological…
Read More Where Does a Xenobot’s History Come From? What Pays the Computational Cost?: The Scientific Truth Behind Michael Levin’s Self-Replicating Robots and “Free Lunches”
AI | Biology | Computer Science | Consciousness | Evolution | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Consciousness Naturalized: A Falsifiable Substrate-Agnostic Consciousness Theory
ByNathan Sweet February 5, 2026February 14, 2026
Why Thermodynamic Constraint Dynamics Succeed Where Every Other Framework Fails A Substrate-Agnostic Account of Mind, Experience, and Perspective Grounded in 13.8 Billion Years of What Actually Survives “A difference only ‘makes a difference’ if it can persist long enough to constrain what comes next. Everything else is noise that thermodynamics erases.” Abstract: Consciousness Naturalized Core…
Read More Consciousness Naturalized: A Falsifiable Substrate-Agnostic Consciousness Theory
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Physics
Absence IS Possibility Space. A Recursive Constraint Falsification Analysis of Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphospace Hypothesis: Platonic Space Discussion #3
ByNathan Sweet February 5, 2026February 16, 2026
The “strong interactionist” model fails the interaction problem Michael Levin’s Platonic morphospace hypothesis proposes that biological systems access a “non-physical space of patterns” that provides “free lunches”: capabilities organisms “didn’t pay for” computationally. His Platonic Space research agenda articulates the claim that “when you’ve made an interface and you’re getting ingressions through it, it’s pretty…
Read More Absence IS Possibility Space. A Recursive Constraint Falsification Analysis of Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphospace Hypothesis: Platonic Space Discussion #3
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Physics
Cognition All the Way Down (the Drain) 2.0: Michael Levin’s Thermodynamic Consciousness Shell Game, The Discovery Institute, and the Art of Making Everything Think by Defining “Thinking” as Everything 🔄️
ByNathan Sweet February 1, 2026February 23, 2026
A Comprehensive Examination of Basal Cognition, Platonic Morphospace, and the Discovery Institute Playbook Applied to Developmental Biology I finally had the time to sit down with Michael Levin and Robert Chis-Ciure’s new paper, “Cognition All the Way Down 2.0: Neuroscience Beyond Neurons in the Diverse Intelligence Era,” published in Synthese in November 2025. I approached…
Read More Cognition All the Way Down (the Drain) 2.0: Michael Levin’s Thermodynamic Consciousness Shell Game, The Discovery Institute, and the Art of Making Everything Think by Defining “Thinking” as Everything 🔄️
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Falsification | Philosophy | Physics
“Differences That Make a Difference”: Why Constraint-Based Explanations Succeed Where “Basal Cognition” Fails
ByNathan Sweet February 1, 2026February 14, 2026
A difference only “makes a difference” if it can persist long enough to constrain what comes next. Everything else is noise that thermodynamics erases. Prologue: The Question That Would Not Stay Answered In 1979, Gregory Bateson posed a question that would haunt systems theory, cybernetics, and philosophy of mind for nearly half a century: What is…
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Biology | Philosophy | Physics
Bateson’s Pattern That Connects: Why Constraint Satisfaction Under Thermodynamic Bounds Is the Answer
ByNathan Sweet January 28, 2026February 1, 2026
A deliberately withheld conclusion. Five independent AI systems. One convergent derivation. The experiment that tests whether reasoning itself has an invariant structure, and why the answer was already encoded in Indigenous knowledge systems, Eastern philosophy, and the mathematics of coastlines. In 1979, Gregory Bateson posed a question that would haunt systems theory, cybernetics, and philosophy…
Read More Bateson’s Pattern That Connects: Why Constraint Satisfaction Under Thermodynamic Bounds Is the Answer
Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
The Metaphysics Audit: Tegmark’s MUH, Wolfram’s Ruliad, Levin’s Morphospace, Penrose-Hameroff’s Orch-OR, Senchal’s Observer Theory, and More. Under Constraint-Based Falsification
ByNathan Sweet January 27, 2026February 14, 2026
A systematic evaluation of twenty-first century frameworks claiming to explain reality, from Platonic morphospace to mathematical universes to computational ruliad, using constraint-based falsification methodology. What survives scrutiny, what gets demoted to metaphor, and why the distinction matters. Part I: The Problem of Theories That Cannot Fail In 1950, philosopher Antony Flew posed a question that…
Read More The Metaphysics Audit: Tegmark’s MUH, Wolfram’s Ruliad, Levin’s Morphospace, Penrose-Hameroff’s Orch-OR, Senchal’s Observer Theory, and More. Under Constraint-Based Falsification
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Physics
Platonic Patterns Without Platonic Baggage: Pavel Chvykov’s Physics Reveals What Michael Levin’s Symposium Can’t Admit
ByNathan Sweet January 26, 2026January 28, 2026
Platonic Patterns Without Platonic Baggage: Pavel Chvykov’s Physics Reveals What Michael Levin’s Symposium Can’t Admit How constraint-based thermodynamics accidentally became the latest exhibit in biological Platonism’s longest-running motte-and-bailey “There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.”— Daniel Dennett Pavel Chvykov’s talk at…
Read More Platonic Patterns Without Platonic Baggage: Pavel Chvykov’s Physics Reveals What Michael Levin’s Symposium Can’t Admit
Biology | Evolution | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Does Evolution Have… Agency? Evolutionary Science Under Attack: Biologist Michael Levin’s Diverse Intelligence Framework
ByNathan Sweet January 23, 2026February 25, 2026
Basal Cognition, Platonic Ingression, and the Limits of Biological Intelligence: A Critical Assessment of Michael Levin’s Theoretical Framework Framing the Stakes Biologist Michael Levin’s framework for understanding evolution and cognition (Source: Levin’s website, thoughtforms.life) represents one of biology’s most ambitious attempts to reframe life itself as fundamentally intelligent. That ambition carries philosophical burdens that survive…
Read More Does Evolution Have… Agency? Evolutionary Science Under Attack: Biologist Michael Levin’s Diverse Intelligence Framework
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Is Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphogenesis Scientific? Brian Cheung’s Bidrectional Relational Convergence Research Inadvertently Reveals the Motte-Bailey Problem
ByNathan Sweet January 21, 2026February 14, 2026
Is Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphogenesis Scientific? From Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: “There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” Daniel Dennett An analysis of how a strong naturalistic talk on convergence in biology and AI inadvertently undermines the Platonic metaphysics it was invited…
Read More Is Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphogenesis Scientific? Brian Cheung’s Bidrectional Relational Convergence Research Inadvertently Reveals the Motte-Bailey Problem
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium Discussion #1: TAME, Distributed Agency vs Individual Intent
ByNathan Sweet January 21, 2026January 24, 2026
Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium Discussion #1: TAME, Distributed Agency vs Individual Intent “A deepity is a proposition that seems both important and true—and profound—but that achieves this effect by being ambiguous. On one reading it is manifestly false, but it would be earth-shaking if it were true; on the other reading it is true…
Read More Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium Discussion #1: TAME, Distributed Agency vs Individual Intent
Biology | Metaphysics | Physics
Palanquins & Princes: How Platonism Ignores 13.8 Billion Years of History as “Just Weights”
ByNathan Sweet January 20, 2026January 23, 2026
Palanquins & Princes: How Platonism Ignores 13.8 Billion Years of History as “Just Weights” Douglas Brash’s talk “Abstract Forms & Tangible Biology: Palanquins, Princes, and a LEGO Hypothesis,” presented at Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium, prompted a revealing exchange in the YouTube comments. Brash, a Yale researcher, offered constraint-based and stigmergic frameworks that, like previous…
Read More Palanquins & Princes: How Platonism Ignores 13.8 Billion Years of History as “Just Weights”
Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
The Empty Set Cannot Kill Physicalism: Timothy Williamson and the Reification Error
ByNathan Sweet January 19, 2026January 23, 2026
The Empty Set Argument Against Physicalism Curt Jaimungal recently posted a clip titled “The Empty Set Argument Against Physicalism,” featuring Timothy Williamson, widely regarded as one of the most formidable living philosophers. The title promises intellectual bloodsport: abstract mathematics cage-fighting material reality, two ontologies enter, one ontology leaves. Curt frames the stakes explicitly, noting in voiceover:…
Read More The Empty Set Cannot Kill Physicalism: Timothy Williamson and the Reification Error
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Evolution | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Michael Levin’s Platonic Spiral: Evolution or Unfalsifiable Circle?
ByNathan Sweet January 18, 2026January 23, 2026
“Competence without comprehension is the way of life of the vast majority of living things on the planet and should be the default presumption until we can demonstrate that some individual organisms really do, in one sense or another, understand what they are doing.” ― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of…
Read More Michael Levin’s Platonic Spiral: Evolution or Unfalsifiable Circle?
Epistemology | Falsification | Physics
Thermodynamic Monism Is Probably Just Materialism, Physicalism, Reductionism, Right? Here Is the Falsifiable Test That Breaks That Reflex
ByNathan Sweet January 14, 2026January 23, 2026
Why Thermodynamic Monism Keeps Getting Mistaken for Whatever You Hate Most Thermodynamic monism is the claim that biology, cognition, agency, and morphogenesis emerge through constraint satisfaction under thermodynamic limits. Energy budgets matter. Entropy production matters. Information processing has a cost. That is not mysticism, and it is not a vibe. It is the boring part of…
Read More Thermodynamic Monism Is Probably Just Materialism, Physicalism, Reductionism, Right? Here Is the Falsifiable Test That Breaks That Reflex
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Metaphysics | Physics
Thermodynamics Constraints Explain Everything Platonism Tries to Explain, But Can Not: Michael Levin’s December 2025 Max Planck School—Matter Meets Life Lecture
ByNathan Sweet January 12, 2026February 14, 2026
“Competence without comprehension is the way of life of the cell. The fact that evolution has created competent designs does not mean that those designs comprehend what they are doing.” — Daniel Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (2017) An analysis of rhetorical slippage, empirical falsification, and the path from mechanism to metaphysics in…
Read More Thermodynamics Constraints Explain Everything Platonism Tries to Explain, But Can Not: Michael Levin’s December 2025 Max Planck School—Matter Meets Life Lecture
bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Metaphysics | Physics
The Chladni Plate Alternative to Platonism: How Douglas Brash’s Constraint-Based Framework Explains Bioelectric Morphogenesis Without Platonic Forms
ByNathan Sweet January 10, 2026January 15, 2026
“A skyhook is a ‘mind-first’ force or power or process, an exception to the principle that all design, and apparent design, is ultimately the result of mindless, motiveless mechanicity.” — Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995) Patterns from Constraints, Not Templates Ernst Chladni’s 18th-century apparatus reveals emergence without access to transcendent forms When Rigorous…
Read More The Chladni Plate Alternative to Platonism: How Douglas Brash’s Constraint-Based Framework Explains Bioelectric Morphogenesis Without Platonic Forms

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