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Estimates of intelligence are observer-dependent and depend on the observer's limitations as much as the system.

An epistemological claim of TAME that agency is not an objective property but is empirically determined by prediction and control efficiency.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Alive AI interface ethics & design
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Explores aliveness, aesthetics, welfare, and ethical responsibility in AI interaction design.
Intelligence as adaptive plasticity and observer-dependent measurement
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Frameworks recognizing that intelligence, consciousness, and biological organization emerge from adaptive capacity and observer limitations, spanning AI systems to developmental biology through 2020s research.
Observer-relative computational information theory
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Information increase and flow reframed as subsystem- and observer-dependent, not absolute thermodynamic quantities.

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Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.

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