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Associated with (1)
- Morphogenesis(concept)
Extends (1)
- Thoughts As Agents(concept)
Implements (2)
- Collective Action(concept)
- Information Integration(method)
Incoming (21)
Associated with (4)
- Collective Action(concept)
- Integration(concept)
- Morphogenesis(concept)
- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere(framework)
Cited by (3)
- Evolutionary Connectionism(framework)
- Planarian Regeneration(method)
- Planarian Regeneration(concept)
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- Morphogenesis(concept)
introduces (1)
- Michael Levin(thinker)
mentions (1)
- Collective Intelligence(concept)
studies (2)
- Eva Jablonka(thinker)
- Michael Levin(thinker)
Supported by (7)
- Cognition and learning are substrate-independent; principles of basal cognition can be implemented by any network with signals and non-linear responses to weighted inputs.(claim)
- Epistemic Vulnerability(concept)
- Functional relationships required for new individuality level encode non-linearly separable functions and are enacted via information integration and collective action(hypothesis)
- No binary distinction between true cognition and physics(claim)
- Polycomputation(concept)
- There is no binary distinction between 'true cognition' and 'just physics'—only continuous variation in cognitive capacity.(claim)
- There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.(claim)
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