This is very close to a boundary/interface model of mind. One possible addition is that the “physical interface” may not merely receive patterns, but must create an admissible zone: a stable region where outward physical action and inward informational recursion meet coherently.

In that sense, minds do not simply ingress into bodies; bodies provide layered boundary conditions that allow patterns to become selectable, memorable, and goal-directed. This may help explain why cognition appears at many scales without requiring a single central mind. Each scale that can maintain an admissible projection–recursion loop can host a local intelligence, while larger organisms arise by coupling many such loops into a shared present.

So the key question becomes: what geometries of embodiment permit ingress? Not just what materials, but what recursive boundary structures.