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concept:cognitionCognition
Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.
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Thinkers (1)
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- Michael Levinstudies
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- beyond cognitionrelated_toAlexander's thesis that wholeness and the fifteen properties are objectively real, not artifacts of cognition, and are fundamental to physics and biology.
- Goal-Directed Behaviorassociated_withObservable behavioral pattern used to infer cognition; shared by plants and animals and proposed as evidence for sentience.
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- Commentary on Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (2023) arguing for plant sentience via multiple realizability and substrate independence, published in Animal Sentience.
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- Cognition in nervous systems, used as a modelling target
- Framework treating cognition as inseparable from bodily organization and environmental interaction; aligned with biogenic approach.
- Cognitive process spread across human and non-human agents; a goal of Pask’s and Friedman’s cybernetic diagrams.
- Interdisciplinary study of mind and cognition, providing models of self and agency.
- An 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.
- Cognition carried out by non-neural tissues, such as morphological problem-solving by cell collectives.
- Dynamical approach to cognition suggesting mind may not be essentially computational; cited as challenge for Contemplative AI substrate-dependence discussion