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claim:the-price-system-serves-as-a-generic-template-or-abstract-model-for-all-cognitive-gluesThe price system serves as a generic template or abstract model for all cognitive glues
Meta-claim: price system generalizes; any cognitive glue must solve the same coordination problem
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extracted_from(2026) · Michael Levin · Benjamin Lyons
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- Mapping Christopher Alexander's 15 properties and center-recursion across bioelectric, digital, and experiential domains.
- Cognitive glue coordination theorymembers_ofLyons-Levin framework: 5 conditions and 9 properties defining substrate-universal coordination mechanisms analogous to price systems.
- Framework for distributed agent coordination through shared scarcity models, specified by Lyons-Levin's 5 formal conditions and 9 universal properties (control, goal-encoding, credit assignment, etc.).
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- Necessary condition for cognitive glues.
- Core claim: cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities; this is the paper's key interpretive assertion
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- The research paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, proposing a cognitive glue concept grounded in economic price systems.
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- The idea that the price system serves as an abstract model for any cognitive glue.
- Identification of the price system as the coordinating mechanism for economic collective intelligence.
- Specification of how the price system functions as cognitive glue.