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concept:cellular-competencyCellular Competency
The problem-solving capacity of cells to rearrange and achieve correct morphology; measured by competency value (max allowed swaps).
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- Michael Levinstudies
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- Basal Cognitionassociated_withAn interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
- XenobotsaboutSynthetic biotic constructs made from repurposed frog embryo skin cells that form self-motile robots with novel morphologies and behaviors including kinematic self-replication; demonstrate cellular competency beyond normal developmental constraints.
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- Collective IntelligenceextendsRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Regulative Plasticityassociated_withThe ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.
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- Ability of cells or tissues to actively restore correct shapes despite perturbations and barriers.
- The innate problem-solving capacity of biological subunits at various scales.
- The ability to navigate a problem space (metabolic, transcriptional, anatomical) to achieve a goal, central to MCA.
- Proposed invariant for analyzing cognition across diverse embodiments; deeper than neural or behavioral homology.