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Natural and artificial intelligence can be unified through world models and life-mind continuity principles.

Core assertive position of the paper; frames AGI in continuity with biological intelligence.

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World models, artificial general intelligence and the hard problems of life–mind continuity: toward a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence

(2026) · Adam Safron · Michael Levin · Victoria Klimaj · Zahra Sheikhbahaee +10

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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.
Substrate-independent intelligence and morphological cognition
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Explores how world models and cognitive processes transcend biological/artificial distinctions, challenging anthropocentric assumptions about consciousness and agency.

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World models provide a bridge between diverse substrates of intelligence—biological, artificial, and hybrid.
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Synthetic claim integrating Ha's work with Levin's xenobiology and Tenenbaum's cognitive modeling.

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What is the nature of the boundary between life and mind, and how does it scale across biological and artificial systems?
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Central open question framing the paper's synthesis.

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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.claim0.813
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
World models in natural and artificial intelligence (theme issue)concept0.810
2026 theme issue; this paper is the flagship integrative contribution.
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Connectionist models of cognition and learning identify conditions where collective intelligence can arise bottom-up, using only distributed learning mechanisms without system-level or global feedback.claim0.799
Central claim about the power of connectionism.
Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.797
Central methodological claim of the paper.
All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.796
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