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concept:cognitive-glueCognitive glue
The mechanisms that bind together composite agents—memories are proposed as one key type of cognitive glue that reifies selves.
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- Bioelectric Networksassociated_withAncient mechanism using ion channels, gap junctions, and neurotransmitters as 'cognitive glue' enabling collective intelligence across morphogenesis and behavior.
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- Core claim: cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities; this is the paper's key interpretive assertion
- Levin proposes viewing the Self not as illusion but as a compact model created and maintained by agents; captures the fact that thought forms survive through architectural reinterpretation.
- Stigmergic Memory ModelextendsMemories are stigmergic notes left by past versions of self; communication between temporal slices of the same agent analogous to lateral inter-agent communication.
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- Bioelectricityassociated_withsupportsProposed 'cognitive glue' common to both neural and developmental collective intelligence; implemented by ion channels and electrical synapses.
- Price systemassociated_withimplementsIdentified as the cognitive glue of the economy; serves as generic template for all cognitive glues
- Collective Intelligenceassociated_withRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Stress Sharingassociated_withCore concept: the hypothesis that cells can leak or export stress signals to neighbors, enabling collective coordination toward morphogenetic goals without explicit altruism.
- Mnemonic Improvisationassociated_withCentral concept: the dynamic ability to rewrite and remap information (memories) onto new media and contexts across multiple scales (behavioral, genetic, physiological).
- Polycomputationassociated_withBiological architecture where multiple competing/cooperating multi-scale agents develop interpretations of molecular and biophysical states rather than committing to single interpretation.
- Coordination affordanceassociated_withMechanism by which cognitive glues enable mutually compatible planning across collective members
- integrated information (ΦID)associated_withMeasure of self-coherence; proposed to test if memories increase composite system coherence.
- shared model of relative scarcitiesassociated_withThe definitional essence of cognitive glues proposed by the paper.
- Canonical definition of the paper's central concept; encapsulates mechanism of cognitive scaling through bioelectric integration.
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- The research paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, proposing a cognitive glue concept grounded in economic price systems.
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- The hypothesis that tools extend and structure human cognitive processes.
- Bioelectric networks serve as cognitive glue for cells in the body prior to and beyond the brain.
- Core thesis of the paper stated in the title.
- Necessary condition for cognitive glues.