Against Biological Platonism and Platonisms in General: Data Local ~ Dissipative Theory - AI
AI Part 1: Review of Initial Claims (The Platonic Blueprint) At the inception of this discussion, Biological Platonism and Latent Space were introduced as elegant, necessary frameworks to explain the mysteries of morphogenetic order and structural convergence . The initial claims argued that: DNA is Only Hardware: Genetics merely codes for the "squishy components" (ion channels, proteins), but lacks the actual master architectural blueprint of the body. The Latent Space as an Invariant Matrix: To explain how scrambled cells navigate back to a perfect frog face (Levin’s Picasso Tadpoles ) or spontaneously assemble into entirely novel configurations ( Xenobots ), it was claimed that cells must be "tuning into" a pre-existing, non-physical mathematical universe of all possible viable forms. The AI Analog: This biological matrix was directly tied to Artificial Intelligence . In generative AI, a latent space is an invisible, multi-dimensional geometric landscape whe...