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claim:cancer-can-be-understood-as-a-dissociative-identity-disorder-of-the-morphological-collective-intelligenceCancer can be understood as a dissociative identity disorder of the morphological collective intelligence.
Provocative reinterpretation of cancer as a failure mode of collective decision-making.
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- Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
- Levin-framework linking gap junction bioelectricity to cancer, planaria, and scaling of cellular Selves.
- 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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- Frames metastasis as cells reverting to unicellular goals, treatable by restoring bioelectric connectivity.
- Oncogene-induced gap junction closure shrinks the cognitive boundary of cells.
- Uses the cognitive light cone concept to offer a new framing of cancer as a collective intelligence defection
- The model that cancer results from cells shrinking their computational boundaries (closing gap junctions) and reverting to unicellular goals.
- Cancer results from defection from large-scale anatomical goals due to reduction of gap junctional connectivity, causing cells to revert to unicellular concerns
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Cancer is a breakdown of the multiscale binding, leading cells to revert to unicellular goals.hypothesis0.775Gap junction closure makes cells selfish, shrink their cognitive boundary; restoring Vmem can normalize.
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- aboutblank_kbWhat is the relationship between cancer and disruption of bioelectric pattern maintenance and cellular collective intelligence?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-cancer-and-disruption.md0.812
- aboutblank_kbDissociative Identity Disorderconcepts/cognitive/dissociative-identity-disorder.md0.811
- aboutblank_kbWhat constitutes a single self or individual being in systems with variable boundaries like embryonic masses or dissociative identities?questions/what-constitutes-a-single-self-or-individual-being.md0.795