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claim:morphogenesis-constitutes-basal-cognition-because-it-requires-information-integration-and-coordinated-action-characteristic-of-problem-solving-in-anatomical-morphospaceMorphogenesis constitutes basal cognition because it requires information integration and coordinated action characteristic of problem-solving in anatomical morphospace.
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- Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
- Levin-influenced framework treating tissue-level morphogenesis as goal-directed, problem-solving intelligence via bioelectric signaling.
- Frames developmental biology as problem-solving through information integration and collective decision-making across cellular systems navigating morphospace.
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- Asserts that developmental biology can be understood through the lens of problem-solving and cognitive concepts.
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- Reframes developmental biology as collective cognition.
- Defines basal cognition, central to linking organismic and evolutionary individuality
- Authors propose deep principle unifying neuroscience and developmental biology through goal-directed behavior as common thread.
- Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
- Levin's main interpretive reframing: rejects purely emergentist/mechanistic views of development in favor of treating morphogenesis as cybernetic, goal-directed problem-solving by cellular swarms.
- Cells work together to build structures in a context-dependent manner, meeting James' test of 'fixed ends with varying means'.
- Bioinformatic prediction that ion channel, connexin, and neurotransmitter genes will appear in both developmental and cognitive contexts.
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- aboutblank_kbCan morphogenesis and regeneration be understood as problem-solving in anatomical morphospace?questions/can-morphogenesis-and-regeneration-be-understood-as-problemsolving.md0.871
- aboutblank_kbAnatomical Morphospace Navigationframeworks/anatomical-morphospace-navigation.md0.822
- aboutblank_kbWhat are the minimal computational requirements for pattern formation and morphogenesis?questions/what-are-the-minimal-computational-requirements-for-pattern.md0.810
- aboutblank_kbHow do higher-level wholes constrain and direct the behavior of their component parts across biological scales?questions/how-do-higherlevel-wholes-constrain-and-direct-the.md0.800
- aboutblank_kbBasal Cognitionframeworks/basal-cognition.md0.792
- aboutblank_kbIsomorphism Between Cognition And Morphogenesisconcepts/interdisciplinary/isomorphism-between-cognition-and-morphogenesis.md0.792
- aboutblank_kbMorphospace Navigationconcepts/systems/morphospace-navigation.md0.780
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