The word "artificial" means a human built the rules. The system follows them.

But what happens when you remove the rules entirely ...

• no training data,
• no decoder,
• no pre-installed programs,

... and replace them with physics? The system doesn't follow instructions anymore. It responds to its environment the same way biology does: by resolving internal pressure against physical resistance, measuring the result, and restructuring itself to do better.

That's not a metaphor. This video walks through the exact architecture: continuous sensory transduction, hierarchical attentional gating, a motor output layer that produces physical actuation vectors instead of tokens, and a divergence-norm plasticity gate that rewires the network on failure: no backpropagation, no labels ...