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Bioelectricity serves as a ‘cognitive glue’ common to collective and individual intelligence, binding cells into competent individuals in both behaviour and morphogenetic spaces.

Identifies bioelectric networks as the medium of basal cognition.

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The collective intelligence of evolution and development

(2023) · Watson, Richard · Levin, Michael

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Cancer phenotypes can be suppressed by forcing bioelectrical connections among cells, overriding oncogenic mutations (Chernet & Levin 2013).
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Shows that restoring bioelectric cohesion can override single-cell goals.
Transient bioelectrical modulation of body-wide pattern memory circuits in planaria can shift them from one-headed to persistent two-headed state, persisting through amputation rounds until reset with different manipulation.
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Experimental evidence that organism-scale goals can be rewritten through physiological signals without genetic modification; demonstrates bioelectricity as cognitive medium.

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Bioelectricity is the cognitive glue that binds the primitive teleonomy of single cells into a higher order system with a larger cognitive light cone.
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Central metaphor of the paper.
Morphogenesis is an instantiation of collective intelligence, exhibiting anatomical homeostasis and autonomous problem-solving in morphospace.
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Reframes developmental biology as collective cognition.

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Bioelectric networks, with their inherent plasticity, multiscale historicity, and learning capacity, are an ideal kind of 'cognitive glue' that binds the primitive goal-directedness of single cells into a higher order system.concept0.874
Canonical definition of the paper's central concept; encapsulates mechanism of cognitive scaling through bioelectric integration.
Bioelectric networks are the cognitive glue binding single-cell goal-directedness into higher-order minds with expanded cognitive light conesclaim0.871
"The cognitive glue that enables emergent agents to support associative memories over their subunits is neural bioelectricity"quote0.862
Captures the proposed role of bioelectricity in binding cells into unified agents.
"cognitive glue that enables emergent agents to support associative memories over their subunits is neural bioelectricity"quote0.855
Load-bearing claim that bioelectric coordination underlies both anatomical collective behavior and neural cognition.
Bioelectric networks implement cognitive binding in both neural and non-neural collectives.claim0.850
Developmental bioelectricity provides a tractable entrypoint into the informational architecture of the collective intelligence of morphogenesis.claim0.850
Bioelectric patterns serve as re-writable pattern memories for anatomical homeostasis.
Bioelectric signaling is the cognitive medium of morphogenetic collectives, analogous to neural synapses in individual brains.claim0.830
Bioelectric networks scale agency across organizational levels by integrating homeostatic competencies of cells into emergent systems with larger cognitive light cones.claim0.817
Core thesis: bioelectric networks provide the mechanism by which single-cell homeostasis becomes organism-level agency through integration and feedback loops.

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Bioelectricity is the cognitive glue that binds the primitive teleonomy of single cells into a higher order system with a larger cognitive light cone.