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concept:bioroboticsBiorobotics
Integration of cultured biological tissue (e.g., brains) with robotic bodies; reveals proto-cognitive capacities of cells in novel configurations.
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- Michael Levinstudies
Frameworks (1)
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- Extended Mind Hypothesisassociated_withCognitive framework referenced to explain how prosthetics and implants extend agent cognition; applied to cyborg contexts.
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- Space of possible beingsimplementsAll possible agents beyond natural biological species, including engineered and alien ones.
- Conceptual expansion: merging of biology, AI, synthetic morphology, and engineering creates agents with unfamiliar compositions requiring new assessment frameworks.
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- The commentary paper by Michael Levin.
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- Synthetic living machines with predictable behavior.
- Systems composed of tightly integrated biological and artificial components at multiple scales, used as evidence against binary life/machine distinction
- Framework treating meaning-making as intrinsic to living systems; supports view of memories as interpreted signs requiring creative interpretation.
- The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
- Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.
- Technology enabling creation of novel bodies and minds through rational construction, not only evolution.
- Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.