The projects being worked on by the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google are so fascinating. The book "What is Intelligence?" by the founder is brilliant an

The projects being worked on by the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google are so fascinating. The book "What is Intelligence?" by the founder is brilliant and mind-opening. While reading the posted article and related topics, I rediscovered a rich collection of papers on Differentiable Self-organizing Systems. https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/ https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/ I'd read through the whole site and all the papers there when they were published, and the questions they raise are, to me, some of the most interesting intellectual themes. Then I realized you're an author on most of the articles, as well as Michael Levin, whose research I've been deeply curious about, listening to his talks, reading his papers. It makes sense that there's a common thread and convergence, but also a pleasant surprise. Just wanted to express my appreciation for the work you and your cohorts are doing, how it's pushing the boundary and depth of our collective understanding. I don't have a question per se, but I feel that this area of inquiry seems both underappreciated by the general public and at the same time fairly open to those outside of academia - what might be called experimental mathematics and exploratory computer science. Maybe there's room for "popular-science" type authors, to explain how cool (ha) these ideas are, to translate the technical material to more digestible language for a wider audience.