Pirsig and Levin are covering similar philosophical terrain: what is a mind? Pirsig finds it in the felt "Quality" before subject/object. Levin finds it in any goal-pursuing system, cell to bio-robot. My human piece is accompanied by an AI translator. overmatter.substack.com/p/zen-and-th...
Zen and the art of Michael Levin: can AIs help us decode the minds of geniuses?An AI holds my hand through metaphysics and the frontiers of theoretical biologyovermatter.substack.com