The bioelectric system is so versatile that it was readily exapted for behavior when nerve and muscle evolved, with a speed-up and focus on temporal signaling.

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• Developmental bioelectricity is an ancient precursor to nervous systems, later exapted for fast behavioral control.claim0.842
  Posits deep evolutionary continuity between somatic pattern control and neural cognition.
• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.840
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• Bioelectric networks discovered by evolution ~time of bacterial biofilms; served as ideal medium for scaling computation and information synthesis before neural systems.finding0.822
  Evidence that pre-neural bioelectric infrastructure predates and likely precedes neurobiology; supports continuity of intelligence across substrates.
• How Do Bioelectric Mechanisms Enable Evolution To Efficientlyquestion0.805
• The evolution of nervous systems was built upon pre-neural bioelectric circuits.hypothesis0.805
  Bioelectrical control of anatomy provided the computational architecture later adapted for behavior.
• Bioelectric networks scale cell computation into anatomical homeostasis and are a mechanism for evolving larger Selves.claim0.803
  Developmental bioelectricity is proposed as a tractable entry point to understand the informational architecture of collective intelligence in morphogenesis.
• Bioelectricity serves as a ‘cognitive glue’ common to collective and individual intelligence, binding cells into competent individuals in both behaviour and morphogenetic spaces.claim0.801
  Identifies bioelectric networks as the medium of basal cognition.
• Bioelectric states can serve as master regulators of organogenesis, bypassing the need to manipulate downstream genetic cascades.hypothesis0.800
  Predicts that simple voltage changes can trigger complex modular morphogenetic programs, useful for regenerative medicine.