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concept:biosemioticsBiosemiotics
Framework treating meaning-making as intrinsic to living systems; supports view of memories as interpreted signs requiring creative interpretation.
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- Chris Fieldsstudies
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- Core claim of biogenic approach: cognition is not unique to brains or nervous systems but emerges from living organization itself.
- Memories as messages between temporal agentsassociated_withLevin proposes viewing memories as stigmergic notes left by past Selflets; parallelizes vertical (temporal) communication with horizontal (social) communication.
- Defining life as a semiotic phenomenonintroducesEmmeche's position that living systems are fundamentally semiotic; supports biosemiotic approach to cognition.
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- Central hypothesis: biological memory optimization targets functional meaning and salience rather than accurate reproduction of past details.
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- The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
- Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.
- Integration of cultured biological tissue (e.g., brains) with robotic bodies; reveals proto-cognitive capacities of cells in novel configurations.
- The creation of novel cognitive systems by combining evolved and designed components, driving the need for TAME.
- Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.
- Synthetic living machines with predictable behavior.