Basal Cognition

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  "tags": [],
  "type": "concept",
  "aliases": [
    "proto-cognition",
    "proto-intelligence",
    "minimal agency",
    "cellular cognition",
    "Distributed Cognition",
    "Information Integration",
    "minimal cognition",
    "Proto-cognition",
    "basal cognition",
    "scale-free cognition",
    "unconventional cognition"
  ],
  "context": "New finding in developmental biology showing cognitive-like processes (integration, collective action) in non-neural systems.",
  "created": "2025-10-21",
  "updated": "2025-10-21",
  "category": "biology",
  "enrichment": {
    "is_stale": true
  },
  "merged_into": "framework:basal-cognition",
  "extracted_type": "concept",
  "source_location": "§NEW DATA AND INSIGHTS"
}