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concept:agential-materialAgential Material
The view that biological substrates have intrinsic competencies, computational abilities, and homeodynamic setpoints, not merely passive matter.
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- Collective Intelligenceassociated_withRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
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- Synthetic morphology with agential materials (Davies & Levin, Nature Reviews Bioengineering 2023)concept0.803Paper on engineering with agential biological materials
- Methods that use agentic reasoning; incur context-switching latency from external execution.
- Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment
- Reasoning approach using code or tool calls executed by an agent.
- The traditional alignment framework focusing on agents optimized to pursue goals.
- Paradigm where VLM acts as controller generating code or tool calls to external modules for visual operations, incurring context-switching latency.
- Synthetic agents (here RL-trained neural networks) whose causal emergence was previously largely unknown; the paper addresses this gap.