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claim:cancer-is-a-breakdown-of-the-collective-intelligence-of-tissues-a-shrinking-of-the-self-boundary-due-to-gap-junction-closureCancer is a breakdown of the collective intelligence of tissues, a shrinking of the Self boundary due to gap junction closure.
Frames metastasis as cells reverting to unicellular goals, treatable by restoring bioelectric connectivity.
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extracted_from(2022) · Michael Levin
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- Depolarization of melanocytes converts them to a metastatic state; conversely, hyperpolarization prevents tumor formation even with oncogene expression.
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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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- Oncogene-induced gap junction closure shrinks the cognitive boundary of cells.
- Cancer is a breakdown of the multiscale binding, leading cells to revert to unicellular goals.hypothesis0.862Gap junction closure makes cells selfish, shrink their cognitive boundary; restoring Vmem can normalize.
- Uses the cognitive light cone concept to offer a new framing of cancer as a collective intelligence defection
- Provocative reinterpretation of cancer as a failure mode of collective decision-making.
- Cancer is interpreted as cells reverting to unicellular selfishness due to loss of gap junctional coupling, shrinking their cognitive boundary.
- Implicit predictive hypothesis from the cancer-as-cognitive-defect claim, with experimental implications for regenerative medicine
- Empirical support for the cancer-as-cognitive-defect / cognitive light cone shrinkage hypothesis
- The view that cancer is a shrinking of the Self boundary due to gap junction closure, reverting cells to unicellular goals.
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- aboutblank_kbCan cancer be understood and treated as a scaling problem of cellular identity?questions/can-cancer-be-understood-and-treated-as-a.md0.814