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The scope of states that an agent can be stressed about defines its degree of cognitive capacity.

Stress expands the spatial, temporal, and complexity scale of goals.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Michael Levin

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Care as mechanism of intelligence
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Care defined as stress-relief concern; proposed invariant linking biology, AI, and evolution.
Stress-Care-Intelligence Loop Framework
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Proposes care as the mechanistic driver of intelligence across biological, AI, and hybrid substrates.
Stress as integrative principle of agency
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Stress as a conserved biological mechanism that maintains homeostatic setpoints and binds distributed subsystems into unified agents across scales.

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Stress as the Glue of Agency
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Stress is a systemic response to setpoint deviations that scales up homeostatic loops and binds subunits into a larger Self.

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Intelligence per se remains a mere capacity – the state of being competent with regards to noticing and overcoming stress – intelligence requires care to be engaged and expressed.claim0.839
Distinguishing intelligence as capacity from its expression.
Intelligence as such is a mere capacity—the state of competency with regards to noticing and overcoming stress—and requires care to be engaged and expressed.claim0.819
Definitional claim distinguishing intelligence from care.
There are no a priori limits on a self's perceptions of stress and thus no limits on capacity for care and intelligent response.hypothesis0.814
Predicts that collective, dynamic nature of intelligent agents enables open-ended evolution without fixed essence.
What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications?question0.802
Central question motivating the paper.
Intelligence is the degree of capacity for identifying and seeking stress relief.claim0.800
Definition of intelligence in terms of stress reduction.
How do limits of care and scope of concern become defined across agents and scales?question0.797
Paper asks whether care expands linearly with problem scale (e.g., caring about 10,000 vs. 1,000 people); hints at necessary bounds on cognitive capacity.
The human capacity to recognize and evaluate agency is well-tuned for medium sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, but not adapted to unfamiliar guises and problem spaces.claim0.795
Claim about the limits of human intuition for detecting intelligence/sentience.
There are no a priori limits on perception of stress or corresponding capacity for care; successful stress-relief reveals novel problem spaces at different scales.claim0.794

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