Cognition all the way down (Levin & Dennett, Aeon 2020)

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• Lyons-Levin and Alexander describe the same mechanism in different epistemic registers: mathematical vs. phenomenological.claim0.748
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.740
• Friston, FitzGerald et al. (2016) — Active inference and learningconcept0.738
  Prior active inference paper providing detailed neurophysiological implementation of belief updates
• Connectionist models of cognition and learning identify conditions where collective intelligence can arise bottom-up, using only distributed learning mechanisms without system-level or global feedback.claim0.733
  Central claim about the power of connectionism.
• Contemplative Artificial Intelligence (Laukkonen et al., 2025)concept0.730
  The primary source paper proposing four contemplative principles for AI alignment and piloting them empirically
• Friston et al. 2016: Active inference and learning (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)concept0.727
  Foundational active inference reference
• There is no clear bright line demarcating true cognition from metaphorical as-if cognition; cognition exists on a continuum.claim0.725
  Core TAME claim rejecting binary categories; supported by evolutionary biology and recent bioengineering.
• all attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.quote0.723
  Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.