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Navigation of problem spaces requires parts to align with system-level goals.

Motivation for studying self-organization: understanding dynamics that facilitate or limit alignment across multiple scales.

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Topological constraints on self-organization in locally interacting systems

(2026) · Francesco Sacco · Dalton Sakthivadivel · Michael Levin

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Manifold-aware concept steering in neural representations
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Explores geometry of activation/behavior manifolds to enable selective, non-destructive concept interventions.
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Geometric goal-alignment in multi-scale systems
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Framework treating teleonomic behavior and goal-directedness as geometric alignment problems across anatomical, physiological, and representational spaces; emphasizes intervention via internal geometry rather than external direction.

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All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.
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Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.

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