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concept:cognitive-boundaryCognitive Boundary
The spatiotemporal limit of the goals an agent can represent and pursue; equivalent to the cognitive light cone.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Claims (1)
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- Argues that outward-facing care expands cognitive boundaries.
Concepts (4)
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- Cognitive Light Conesame_concept_asConcept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.
- Major Evolutionary Transitionassociated_withEvent where lower-level individuals form a new, higher-level cooperative life form, such as the transition from cells to multicellular organisms.
- Intelligence (as stress relief)associated_withThe capacity to identify stress and work toward stress relief, scaling with the scope of states an agent can care about.
- Mind Meld (via gap junctions)associated_withThe process by which cells lose individuality and form a collective cognitive unit through gap junctional coupling.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Core concept defining an Individual by the spatio-temporal boundary of events it can measure, model, and affect—demarcating the limits of its cognition.
- Scale of goals an agent can pursue.
- Selves that are dynamical constructs, maintained by continuous reinterpretation.