Levin proposes that the standard heredity-plus-environment model of biological development is incomplete: it cannot account for the “surprising competency” of organisms, tissues, and even cell collectives that exhibit sophisticated goal-directed behavior without any history of selection for that specific ability. To explain this, he introduces the concept of “ingressing patterns” — structured forms or archetypes that inhere in a non-physical space and are capable of being instantiated in physical substrates under appropriate conditions.
This is a speculative but carefully argued extension of the TAME framework. In the context of OM’s Diverse Intelligence research, the paper is cited via footnote alongside Weinbaum and Veitas’s open-ended intelligence work as one answer to the question of who or what is the “virtual governor” — the pilot of apparently autonomous, distributed processes like the protocol underground. Levin’s ingressing patterns, alongside McKenna’s transcendental object and Weinbaum’s abstraction layers, constitute three candidate answers to that question.