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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c2-c0-c0Bioelectric computation and distributed agency
Systems where biological electrical signaling enables cognitive capabilities across scales, from cells to organisms, separating hardware from information content.
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- Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind2 members
- Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms1 member
- Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology1 member
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Claims (3)
- Bioelectric networks scale agency across organizational levels by integrating homeostatic competencies of cells into emergent systems with larger cognitive light cones.Core thesis: bioelectric networks provide the mechanism by which single-cell homeostasis becomes organism-level agency through integration and feedback loops.
- Cybernetics provides naturalistic, quantitative framework for understanding goal-directedness in biological systems
- Neural bioelectric networks achieve a critical separation of hardware and software: the same molecular substrate can instantiate different informational content based on history, enabling minds to arise from matter.Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.
Findings (1)
- Cultured neural networks can learn to navigate a maze via closed-loop feedback.From DeMarse et al. (2001) and Bakkum et al. (2007), demonstrating learning in hybrid systems.