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artifact:levin-lyons-2026-cognitive-glues-are-shared-models-of-relative-scarcities-the-economics-of-collective-intelligenceLevin & Lyons (2026) Cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities: the economics of collective intelligence
The research paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, proposing a cognitive glue concept grounded in economic price systems.
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Thinkers (2)
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- Michael Levinauthored
- Benjamin Lyonsauthored
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- A 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.
Concepts (10)
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- Collective IntelligencementionsRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Cognitive gluementionsThe mechanisms that bind together composite agents—memories are proposed as one key type of cognitive glue that reifies selves.
- Price systemmentionsIdentified as the cognitive glue of the economy; serves as generic template for all cognitive glues
- coordinating affordancementionsThe role played by the price system: enabling members to form mutually compatible plans.
- The idea that the price system serves as an abstract model for any cognitive glue.
- The definitional essence of cognitive glues proposed by the paper.
- mutually compatible plansmentionsThe goal of cognitive glue: plans that are cross-consistent across agents.
- relative scarcitiesmentionsThe underlying variables that cognitive glues model in a shared way.
- Property exhibited by the economy as a complex system, supporting its classification as a collective intelligence.
- complex system (economy)mentionsThe economy described as consisting of autonomous elements at multiple scales, exhibiting adaptive problem-solving.
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- Necessary condition for cognitive glues.
- Identification of the price system as the coordinating mechanism for economic collective intelligence.
- Meta-claim: price system generalizes; any cognitive glue must solve the same coordination problem
- Specification of how the price system functions as cognitive glue.
- Core thesis of the paper stated in the title.
- Motivation for using economics to study collective intelligence.
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- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Aassociated_withPublication venue for the paper; theme issue on world models in natural and artificial intelligence.