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Bridges (11)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Multiscale agency & collective intelligence3 shared
- Bioelectric Cognition3 shared
- Multiscale Memory Systems3 shared
- Bioelectric cognition & collective individuality3 shared
- Sentience Detection Framework2 shared
- Substrate-independent sentience frameworks2 shared
- Basal cognition & unconventional intelligence1 shared
- Evolutionary Connectionism1 shared
- Levin Research Network1 shared
- Evolutionary Information Flow1 shared
- Expanded cognition & sentience frameworks1 shared
Papers (6)
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
- Developmental Bioelectricity: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind
- AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future
- Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species
- Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
- The collective intelligence of evolution and development
Concepts (5)
- BioelectricityProposed 'cognitive glue' common to both neural and developmental collective intelligence; implemented by ion channels and electrical synapses.
- Gap JunctionsCellular connections that enable bioelectric communication; form bioelectric networks underlying morphogenetic control and can be manipulated experimentally via molecular reagents.
- SynthbiosisLevin's proposed framework for mutually beneficial relationships between radically different intelligences.
- ConnectionismCentral framework proposing intelligence resides in organization of relationships between components, not in individual parts; used to unify individual and collective intelligence.
- Minimal CognitionField studying evolutionary origins of cognitive capacities in bacteria, slime moulds, plants, tissues; demonstrates sentience need not require high-order reflection.
Frameworks (2)
- Basal CognitionAn interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
- Axis Of PersuadabilityPractical engineering framework for determining optimal level of control for a given system, from brute force to rational argument.