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Understanding the dynamics that facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts impacts many fields ranging across life sciences and engineering.

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Topological constraints on self-organization in locally interacting systems

(2026) · Francesco Sacco · Dalton Sakthivadivel · Michael Levin

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Manifold-aware concept steering in neural representations
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Explores geometry of activation/behavior manifolds to enable selective, non-destructive concept interventions.
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Geometric goal-alignment in multi-scale systems
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Framework treating teleonomic behavior and goal-directedness as geometric alignment problems across anatomical, physiological, and representational spaces; emphasizes intervention via internal geometry rather than external direction.

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Navigation of problem spaces requires parts to align with system-level goals.claim0.847
Motivation for studying self-organization: understanding dynamics that facilitate or limit alignment across multiple scales.
The deep symmetry between problem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D spaces drives specific hypotheses.claim0.795
Evolution pivoted the same problem-solving strategies across different domains.
Representational dynamics aligned with reward improvement in most RL tasks.finding0.787
Secondary empirical result: CE-based representational changes correlate with task success.
"We could continue to invent new and exciting mechanisms beyond context-orientation and Worlds, ad absurdum, or recognise they are all just points within a dimensionally unbounded space of related, self-similar mechanisms."concept0.782
Claim that many advanced programming paradigms reduce to parameterizations of the n-way associative model.
Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.780
Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
The alignment between representation geometry and behavior geometry is not limited to days of the week but extends to months, letters, ages, and synthetic in-context learning tasks.claim0.780
The paper's generalization claim, asserting that the days-of-week finding scales to other cyclic and structured concepts.
The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.779
Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
There is a bidirectional relationship between the geometry of representation and behavior across tasks and modalities.claim0.778
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