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Applies the multi-scale agency view to human cognition, suggesting non-unitary selves.
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extracted_from(2022) · Michael Levin
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Pluralistic frameworks treating consciousness as non-unitary, scale-spanning, and foundational to ethical obligations across composite beings and their components.
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- Open question about whether consciousness continuum extends to inanimate matter.
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- Critique of modern cognition.
- TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
- Asserts that 20th-century processes do not intentionally create living form, unlike the living processes described in chapters 6-17.
- Diagnosis of modernity.
- Redefining 'modern' to include the kindlier morphology of living processes.