Play as raised temperature for exploration

This is a ~1 hours 44 minute discussion among contributors to the Platonic Space Hypothesis (https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Platonic forms and interaction

(07:01) Xenobots and evolutionary cost

(11:23) Symbiosis, rectifiers, embeddings

(18:06) Free lunches in biology

(27:59) Topology of competency space

(39:53) Exploration, play, affordances

(48:01) Markov blankets and evolution

(57:51) Relational life and observers

(01:04:10) Defining play and plasticity

(01:20:35) Thermodynamics and domesticated play

(01:29:32) Will to live dynamics

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