Bacterial chemotaxis as proto-cognitive behavior

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• Chemotaxisconcept0.803
  The mechanism by which slime mold cells swim toward a chemical gradient of acrasin, creating an apparent center that then intensifies through aggregation
• Biological agents increase causal emergence after learning new memories.claim0.744
  Prior empirical observation from biological systems; motivates investigation in artificial agents.
• Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.733
• Plants' behaviours are fundamentally cognitive because they are goal-directed, anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, unlike simple reflexes, which are comparatively rigid, typically inborn, and do not require any accompanying mental action.claim0.733
  Characterization of plant behaviours as cognitive, beyond reflexes.
• Learned behavior memories persist through brain metamorphosis in insects.finding0.731
  Caterpillars that learn a behavior retain it as adults despite brain being drastically remodelled, showing memory mapping across substrates.
• Cognitive functions such as sentience are always inferred.claim0.730
  First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
• Bacterial biofilms exhibit bioelectrically-coordinated oscillatory growth patterns, with a negative feedback loop similar to the vertebrate segmentation clock (Liu et al. 2015, Chou et al. 2022)finding0.722
  Shows that collective physiological oscillations in bacterial communities resemble mechanisms in animal development.
• Cognitive Functions Should Be Identified by Behavior, Not Substrateclaim0.720