Bioelectric networks, with their inherent plasticity, multiscale historicity, and learning capacity, are an ideal kind of 'cognitive glue' that binds the primitive goal-directedness of single cells into a higher order system.

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• Bioelectric networks are the cognitive glue binding single-cell goal-directedness into higher-order minds with expanded cognitive light conesclaim0.918
• Bioelectricity is the cognitive glue that binds the primitive teleonomy of single cells into a higher order system with a larger cognitive light cone.claim0.880
  Central metaphor of the paper.
• Bioelectric networks implement cognitive binding in both neural and non-neural collectives.claim0.878
• Bioelectricity serves as a ‘cognitive glue’ common to collective and individual intelligence, binding cells into competent individuals in both behaviour and morphogenetic spaces.claim0.874
  Identifies bioelectric networks as the medium of basal cognition.
• Neural bioelectric networks achieve a critical separation of hardware and software: the same molecular substrate can instantiate different informational content based on history, enabling minds to arise from matter.claim0.863
  Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.
• Bioelectric networks discovered by evolution ~time of bacterial biofilms; served as ideal medium for scaling computation and information synthesis before neural systems.finding0.863
  Evidence that pre-neural bioelectric infrastructure predates and likely precedes neurobiology; supports continuity of intelligence across substrates.
• Bioelectric networks scale agency across organizational levels by integrating homeostatic competencies of cells into emergent systems with larger cognitive light cones.claim0.850
  Core thesis: bioelectric networks provide the mechanism by which single-cell homeostasis becomes organism-level agency through integration and feedback loops.
• Bioelectric networks scale cell computation into anatomical homeostasis and are a mechanism for evolving larger Selves.claim0.849
  Developmental bioelectricity is proposed as a tractable entry point to understand the informational architecture of collective intelligence in morphogenesis.