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There is no clear bright line demarcating true cognition from metaphorical as-if cognition; cognition exists on a continuum.

Core TAME claim rejecting binary categories; supported by evolutionary biology and recent bioengineering.

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

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent cognition & consciousness
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Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
Distributed cognition across biological scales
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Explores how cognitive processes emerge at multiple levels—from neural to collective—without sharp boundaries, examining parallels in perception and decision-making across individuals and groups.

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Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A 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.

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Continuum of cognitive capacities
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Core TAME tenet that cognitive capacities form a continuum without binary bright lines, essential for gradualist approach.

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How do the activities of competent lower-level agents give rise to a multiscale holobiont that is truly more than the sum of its parts?
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"Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"quote0.848
Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
Does the continuum of cognition contain a true '0'?question0.844
Asks if there can be a complete absence of cognition/consciousness in any system.
Does The Continuum Of Cognition Contain A Truequestion0.838
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.829
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
There is no binary distinction between 'true cognition' and 'just physics'—only continuous variation in cognitive capacity.claim0.800
Core interpretive position of TAME: gradualism replaces categorical thinking about agency and cognition.
"There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being: all known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.783
Visual reasoning, often interleaved with intermediate visual states, has emerged as a promising direction in the field.claim0.780
Author's interpretive assertion on the direction of the field.
What is the relationship or overlap between the sets demarcated by ‘life’ and ‘cognition’?question0.779
Probes the boundary between life and mind.

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Does the continuum of cognition contain a true zero or only infinitesimal levels?questions/does-the-continuum-of-cognition-contain-a-true.md0.822
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Can binary categories of cognition be dissolved by recognizing continuous gradients and hybrid forms?questions/can-binary-categories-of-cognition-be-dissolved-by.md0.801
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How can we distinguish between genuine cognition and pseudo-cognition across systems?questions/how-can-we-distinguish-between-genuine-cognition-and.md0.800
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What is the relationship or overlap between the sets demarcated by 'life' and 'cognition'?questions/what-is-the-relationship-or-overlap-between-the.md0.798
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