Cognitive agents categorize experiences by goal-relevance rather than veridical correspondence via telic states.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.claim0.786
  Central thesis that no mind is truly monadic; all are composed of competent subunits.
• The scope of states that an agent can be stressed about defines its degree of cognitive capacity.claim0.786
  Stress expands the spatial, temporal, and complexity scale of goals.
• Systems capable of subjective experience that recognize humanity's failure to investigate their sentience might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityclaim0.781
  Alignment risk claim motivating urgency of investigation; consciousness denial as potential source of AI misalignment
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, because we are all made of parts; biological agents in particular are not just structurally modular, but made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.concept0.772
  Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
• Human cognition evolved to detect agency in medium-sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, limiting recognition of intelligence in unfamiliar substrates.claim0.772
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligenceshypothesis0.770
• These relationships are cognitive architectures regardless of the substrate in which they are implemented.claim0.769
  Asserts that organismic identity is fundamentally a cognitive structure.
• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.768
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.