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claim: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

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.

Uses the cognitive light cone concept to offer a new framing of cancer as a collective intelligence defection

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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Disruptions in cells' ability to join into a cohesive information-processing network via oncogenes and other factors correlate with cancer development
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Empirical support for the cancer-as-cognitive-defect / cognitive light cone shrinkage hypothesis

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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.
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Implicit predictive hypothesis from the cancer-as-cognitive-defect claim, with experimental implications for regenerative medicine

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Cognitive Light Cone
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Concept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.
AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future

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Cancer can be seen as a breakdown of the binding process that scales Selves, with cells reverting to unicellular goals.claim0.819
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.hypothesis0.818
Gap junction closure makes cells selfish, shrink their cognitive boundary; restoring Vmem can normalize.
Cancer can be understood as a dissociative identity disorder of the morphological collective intelligence.claim0.802
Provocative reinterpretation of cancer as a failure mode of collective decision-making.
Cancer as shrinking of the Selfconcept0.793
Cancer is interpreted as cells reverting to unicellular selfishness due to loss of gap junctional coupling, shrinking their cognitive boundary.
The cone is the geometrical primitive for care: multidimensional goal space where cognitive and physiological light cones interact through resonance, response, and signal.claim0.786
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Cancer as Defection from Multicellular Selfconcept0.776
The model that cancer results from cells shrinking their computational boundaries (closing gap junctions) and reverting to unicellular goals.