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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c4-c5Gradualism and nested cognition frameworks
Rejection of binary boundaries in consciousness and cognition, emphasizing continuous variation, nested selves, and scalar properties across biological organization levels.
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- Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
- Consciousness comes in degrees and kinds and is not binary.Extends the gradualist perspective to sentience.
- Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
- TAME is incompatible with binary views that cut off consciousness at a particular sharp line.If mechanisms for consciousness are present in brains, they are also present in many other tissues.
- There is no binary distinction between 'true cognition' and 'just physics'—only continuous variation in cognitive capacity.Core interpretive position of TAME: gradualism replaces categorical thinking about agency and cognition.
- There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being.All known minds reside in composite physical systems.