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Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanisms

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Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind

(2023) · Levin, Michael

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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.
Bioelectric morphogenesis & memory
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Michael Levin's research on bioelectric signaling controlling anatomical goals, regeneration, and cancer.
Bioelectric networks as morphogenetic cognition
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Membrane potential dynamics coordinate multicellular behavior, anatomical memory, and agency scaling across biological levels—studied via melanocyte fate, biofilm oscillations, and xenobotic morphology experiments (Levin et al. 2015–2023).

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Continuity Hypothesis Framework
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How did information processing capacities of a single cell inflate to that of a human pursuing goals of planetary scale?
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Cognitive capacities exist on a spectrum and tools from behavioral sciences can be productively applied to understand and control systems far beyond familiar animals with central nervous systems.claim0.821
Core tenet of diverse intelligence; justifies the methodological borrowing across fields.
Bioelectricity serves as a ‘cognitive glue’ common to collective and individual intelligence, binding cells into competent individuals in both behaviour and morphogenetic spaces.claim0.811
Identifies bioelectric networks as the medium of basal cognition.
Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissueshypothesis0.809
Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.808
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
"Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"quote0.808
Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
The conservation of molecular mechanisms between neural and non-neural bioelectricity is why neuroscience tools work everywhere in the body.claim0.805
Empirical claim about transferability of methods.
If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.804
Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
Bioelectric networks, with their inherent plasticity, multiscale historicity, and learning capacity, are an ideal kind of 'cognitive glue' that binds the primitive goal-directedness of single cells into a higher order system.concept0.802
Canonical definition of the paper's central concept; encapsulates mechanism of cognitive scaling through bioelectric integration.

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