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claim:problems-of-cognition-mind-and-morphogenesis-body-share-fundamental-commonality-in-competent-problem-solvingProblems of cognition (mind) and morphogenesis (body) share fundamental commonality in competent problem-solving.
Authors propose deep principle unifying neuroscience and developmental biology through goal-directed behavior as common thread.
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extracted_from(2023) · Clawson, Wesley P. · Levin, Michael
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- Tadpoles with ectopic eyes on tail can see and integrate sensory input from aberrant locationsupportsDemonstrates neural plasticity: brain adapts behavioral programs to sensory input from abnormal anatomical locations within single organism lifetime.
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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.
- Cells as goal-directed agents maintaining anatomical representations through gap-junction-mediated information integration; cancer as cognitive defection when collective Self boundaries collapse.
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- Basal CognitionextendsAn interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
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- Testable prediction that insights from developmental bioelectricity can illuminate behavioral cognition and vice versa; grounds portability of neuroscience tools across tissue types.
- Bioinformatic prediction that ion channel, connexin, and neurotransmitter genes will appear in both developmental and cognitive contexts.
- 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.
- Reframes developmental biology as a cognitive science.
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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.md0.856
- aboutblank_kbWhat are the invariants and symmetries between morphogenetic and behavioral problem-solving?questions/what-are-the-invariants-and-symmetries-between-morphogenetic.md0.855
- aboutblank_kbMind-Body Problemconcepts/metaphysics/mind-body-problem.md0.820
- aboutblank_kbWhat are the deep conceptual similarities between neural cognition, morphogenetic control, and artificial intelligence?questions/what-are-the-deep-conceptual-similarities-between-neural.md0.819
- aboutblank_kbWhat determines the specific set of morphogenetic competencies that evolve in different lineages?questions/what-determines-the-specific-set-of-morphogenetic-competencies.md0.811
- aboutblank_kbHans Spemannthinkers/hans-spemann.md0.802
- aboutblank_kbProblem Of Other Mindsconcepts/epistemology/problem-of-other-minds.md0.795