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Intriguingly, Bach notes that many ancient philosophies, including Plato's theory of forms, can be reinterpreted as models of embedding spaces—dimensions of thought and archetypes—informed by modern AI concepts.

An Organism as a Self-Organizing Software System

Bach advances a computational perspective of the mind rooted in Aristotelian layers of the soul:

• Vegetative (growth, nutrition),

• Animal (perception, decision-making),

• Human (reason, reflection).

He posits that the self-organizing software—the "soul"—dynamically structures these layers, implementing multiple levels of functionality, from cell-to-cell communication, reward protocols, semantic language, to world models of oneself.