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concept:chimaerasChimaeras
Living organisms composed of heterogeneous biological components from different origins; a key experimental paradigm.
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Thinkers (1)
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- Wesley Clawsonstudies
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- Collective Morphogenesismembers_of
Concepts (2)
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- TeleonomyaboutGoal-directed behavior framework; referenced in plant cognition context.
- Synthbiosisassociated_withLevin's proposed framework for mutually beneficial relationships between radically different intelligences.
Findings (2)
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- Natural chimaera demonstrating goal-directed control of host behavior through body-wide fungal network, not CNS manipulation.
- Artificial chimaera merging biological motor cortex with software enabling novel communication without understanding underlying neural mechanisms.
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- Mixing biological components from different species or with engineered parts.
- Combinations of living material, bioengineered components, and software; examples of novel synthetic life forms
- Novel organisms combining living and engineered components; test cases for TAME framework.
- Argument that hybrid systems break outdated categories.
- Hybrid systems combining living and technological components, studied in diverse intelligence.
- Hybrids of evolved and designed components, blurring organisms and machines.
- Physical/informational substrate of memory; reframed not as static encoded detail but as prompt requiring creative interpretation by receiving system.
- Set of nodes all mutually connected; used to model hierarchical modules in biological systems