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claim:selves-can-be-nested-and-overlapping-cooperating-and-competing-both-laterally-and-across-levelsSelves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.
Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
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extracted_from(2022) · Levin, Michael
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
- Rejection of binary boundaries in consciousness and cognition, emphasizing continuous variation, nested selves, and scalar properties across biological organization levels.
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- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
- Multiscale Competency Architectureassociated_withA framework originating from Levin that formalizes how hierarchical biological systems—from cells to tissues to organs—exhibit integrated problem-solving and adaptive plasticity across multiple levels of organization (metabolic, transcriptional, physiological, anatomical). It models system-level behaviors as emergent from competition and cooperation among heterogeneous subunits within composite agents, explaining how goals and regulations scale across biological scales.
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- Selves exist at multiple scales and can be nested (wholes containing parts that are themselves Selves) and overlapping, competing and cooperating.
- A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).
- Links selfhood to cognitive scope.
- Levin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
- Integration and collective action (basal cognition) mechanisms enact the functional relationships necessary for new individuality.hypothesis0.783Proposes biological mechanisms implementing non-decomposable functions in developmental individuality.
- Ethical question raised in the context of collective intelligences.
- Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
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- aboutblank_kbWhat constitutes the computational boundary defining which agents are unified selves versus swarms of independent agents?questions/what-constitutes-the-computational-boundary-defining-which-agents.md0.797
- aboutblank_kbSelf (Composite, Non-Monadic)concepts/interdisciplinary/self-composite-non-monadic.md0.791
- aboutblank_kbHow do we construct higher-order social Selves that promote flourishing for all components?questions/how-do-we-construct-higherorder-social-selves-that.md0.781