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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c2-c9Distributed control without central command
Explores how complex behavior emerges from peripheral manipulation rather than central control, exemplified by fungal-host systems and dissolving outdated categorical boundaries.
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- Chimaerism is a type of conceptual universal acid, dissolving existing terminology that is not based on deep concepts.Argument that hybrid systems break outdated categories.
- Cybernetic perspectives on chimaeric morphogenesis erase artificial distinctions established by past limitations of technology and imagination.Author argument for cybernetic framework.
Findings (2)
- Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus controls ant behavior without infecting ant brainNatural chimaera demonstrating goal-directed control of host behavior through body-wide fungal network, not CNS manipulation.
- Ophiocordyceps unilateralis forms a fungal network invading ant muscles but not the brain.From Fredericksen et al. (2017), demonstrates how a parasite can control host behavior without neural takeover.