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Bridges (12)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Distributed & non-neural cognition2 shared
- Bioelectric Cognition1 shared
- Bioengineering Teleonomy1 shared
- Collective Morphogenesis1 shared
- Information Flow Architecture1 shared
- Substrate-independent consciousness theories1 shared
- Multiscale agency & collective intelligence1 shared
- Cognitive glue & collective intelligence1 shared
- Bioelectric cognition & collective individuality1 shared
- Levin Research Network1 shared
- Active Inference1 shared
- Unconventional Computation1 shared
Concepts (9)
- Collective IntelligenceRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Self-OrganizationSpontaneous emergence of long-range order in networks; modeled as neural and basal cognition.
- Meta-AwarenessSystem's awareness of its own attentional states; the paper's central explanatory target, formalized as precision over attentional state representations.
- Unconventional embodimentsCore concept: cells, tissues, life-technology chimeras, and synthetic systems where consciousness and cognition may occur outside brains.
- World models in natural and artificial intelligence (theme issue)2026 theme issue; this paper is the flagship integrative contribution.
- Biological computation (scale-inseparable, hybrid dynamics)
- Distributed Cognition in AI
- Price system as cognitive glue
- ΦID (Integrated Information Decomposition)Recently proposed method for estimating causal emergence; applied to RL agent latent-space representations.
Papers (4)
- Brains and where else? Mapping theories of consciousness to unconventional embodiments
- Topological constraints on self-organization in locally interacting systems
- World models, artificial general intelligence and the hard problems of life–mind continuity: toward a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence
- Cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities: the economics of collective intelligence
Frameworks (3)
- Diverse IntelligenceResearch program studying intelligence at multiple scales and substrates; proposed as relevant to implications of mnemonic improvisation.
- Free Energy PrincipleA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
- Tame Technological Approach To Mind EverywhereA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
Thinkers (2)
- Michael Levin
- Karl FristonAuthor of the free energy principle framework; central thinker in the paper.