Cancer as Cognitive Defection

Cancer results from defection from large-scale anatomical goals due to reduction of gap junctional connectivity, causing cells to revert to unicellular concerns

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Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence

(2022) · Doctor, Thomas · Witkowski, Olaf · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1

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Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence
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Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
Morphological cognition and collective cellular intelligence
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Cells as goal-directed agents maintaining anatomical representations through gap-junction-mediated information integration; cancer as cognitive defection when collective Self boundaries collapse.

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Bioelectricity
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Proposed 'cognitive glue' common to both neural and developmental collective intelligence; implemented by ion channels and electrical synapses.

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Cancer as Cognitive Defectconcept0.924
Cancer understood as cells that shrink their self-model to a tiny radius and defect from the collective, treating the rest of the body as environment
Cancer as Defection from Multicellular Selfconcept0.809
The model that cancer results from cells shrinking their computational boundaries (closing gap junctions) and reverting to unicellular goals.
Cancer represents a shrinking of the cognitive light cone in which defecting cells revert to ancient unicellular goals and treat the rest of the body as external environment.claim0.804
Explains disease as a self/world boundary failure within the multi-scale competency architecture.
Cancer can be understood as a dissociative identity disorder of the morphological collective intelligence.claim0.776
Provocative reinterpretation of cancer as a failure mode of collective decision-making.
Cancer is a pathology of the cognitive light cone — cells shrink their self-model to a tiny radius, defecting from the collective body and treating the rest of the body as the external environment.claim0.770
Uses the cognitive light cone concept to offer a new framing of cancer as a collective intelligence defection
If cancer represents a shrinkage of the cognitive light cone, then interventions that restore cellular participation in tissue-level information-processing networks should suppress cancer progression.hypothesis0.756
Implicit predictive hypothesis from the cancer-as-cognitive-defect claim, with experimental implications for regenerative medicine
Cancer is a breakdown of the collective intelligence of tissues, a shrinking of the Self boundary due to gap junction closure.claim0.753
Frames metastasis as cells reverting to unicellular goals, treatable by restoring bioelectric connectivity.
Cancer as shrinking of the Selfconcept0.753
Cancer is interpreted as cells reverting to unicellular selfishness due to loss of gap junctional coupling, shrinking their cognitive boundary.