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Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.

Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.

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Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence

(2022) · Doctor, Thomas · Witkowski, Olaf · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent cognition & consciousness
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Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.

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Goal-Directedness
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Proposed universal invariant of cognition and intelligence—capacity for goal-directed activity in a problem space, independent of substrate or embodiment.

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"Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"quote0.848
Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.840
Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.831
Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.831
Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
Human intelligence has an uneasy relationship with its biological substrate and is decisively limited in its organic form.claim0.831
Foundation for the need to migrate intelligence to a technological substrate.
There is no clear bright line demarcating true cognition from metaphorical as-if cognition; cognition exists on a continuum.claim0.829
Core TAME claim rejecting binary categories; supported by evolutionary biology and recent bioengineering.
How Can Cognition And Consciousness Exist In Biologicalquestion0.825
Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.823
Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.

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What constitutes the boundary between cognitive and non-cognitive biological processes?questions/what-constitutes-the-boundary-between-cognitive-and-noncognitive.md0.844
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How can intelligence expand its cognitive boundary to include all sentient beings?questions/how-can-intelligence-expand-its-cognitive-boundary-to.md0.843
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How can cognition exist at scales beyond the nervous system, and what are the computational principles underlying cellular and genetic information processing?questions/how-can-cognition-exist-at-scales-beyond-the.md0.841
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Can cognition exist in non-neural biological systems such as gene regulatory networks, cells, tissues, and plants?questions/can-cognition-exist-in-nonneural-biological-systems-such.md0.841
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Are all living things cognitive?questions/are-all-living-things-cognitive.md0.840
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How do we develop the cognitive and perceptual tools to recognize minds that operate on completely different substrates and scales from human consciousness?questions/how-do-we-develop-the-cognitive-and-perceptual.md0.840
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What is the nature and origin of possible cognitive selves across diverse biological embodiments?questions/what-is-the-nature-and-origin-of-possible.md0.836
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How can cognition occur in biological systems without neural tissue, and what are the implications for defining intelligence?questions/how-can-cognition-occur-in-biological-systems-without.md0.835
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How can cognition and consciousness exist in biological systems without nervous systems or centralized control?questions/how-can-cognition-and-consciousness-exist-in-biological.md0.834
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Can diverse forms of intelligence (in unfamiliar substrates like bacterial biofilms, slime molds, or synthetic systems) be recognized and understood using the same conceptual tools?questions/can-diverse-forms-of-intelligence-in-unfamiliar-substrates.md0.834
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How do physical constraints and substrate differences determine the possibilities and limitations of different intelligences?questions/how-do-physical-constraints-and-substrate-differences-determine.md0.831
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What is the relationship between the physical substrate and cognitive capability across different scales of biological organization?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-physical-substrate.md0.831