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claim:cognition-as-a-biological-process-inherent-to-all-living-systemsCognition as a biological process inherent to all living systems
Core claim of biogenic approach: cognition is not unique to brains or nervous systems but emerges from living organization itself.
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- The biogenic approach to cognitionintroduces
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Applying Christopher Alexander's structural aliveness framework to human-AI interaction design, separating aesthetics from competence.
- Explores how cognition and intentionality emerge through self-organizing biological processes, shared between living and artificial systems.
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- AutopoiesisimplementsMaturana-Varela principle of self-maintaining systems that organize themselves through internal feedback; extended here to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
- Embodied cognitionsupportsFramework treating cognition as inseparable from bodily organization and environmental interaction; aligned with biogenic approach.
- Anticipatory SystemssupportsRosen's framework for systems with predictive models of their environment; relevant to understanding cognition in living systems.
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- BiosemioticssupportsFramework treating meaning-making as intrinsic to living systems; supports view of memories as interpreted signs requiring creative interpretation.
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- Christensen & Hooker's position that intelligence emerges from autonomous self-organizing systems; related to biogenic approach.
- Intentionality as the mark of the mentalcontradictsCrane's philosophical position that aboutness/intentionality defines mental phenomena; contested by biogenic approaches.
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- Core open question: whether cognition is a scaled property present in all living systems or emerges only at certain complexity levels.
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- Framework treating cognitive processes as continuous dynamical phenomena rather than discrete computational steps; compatible with biogenic view.
- Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
- Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
- Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
- Defines basal cognition, central to linking organismic and evolutionary individuality
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- aboutblank_kbCognitionconcepts/cognitive/cognition.md0.833
- aboutblank_kbAre all living things cognitive?questions/are-all-living-things-cognitive.md0.815
- aboutblank_kbBasal Cognitionconcepts/cognitive/basal-cognition.md0.802
- aboutblank_kbWhat mechanisms enable biological pattern recognition and meaning-making?questions/what-mechanisms-enable-biological-pattern-recognition-and-meaningmaking.md0.792