Competency In Navigating Arbitrary Spaces

Proposed invariant for analyzing cognition across diverse embodiments; deeper than neural or behavioral homology.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

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Cognitive Light Cone
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Concept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Competencyconcept0.776
Ability of cells or tissues to actively restore correct shapes despite perturbations and barriers.
Intelligence is the degree of competency in navigating any problem space (not just 3D), including morphospace, transcriptional space, etc.claim0.763
Expands the definition of intelligence to include non-behavioral problem-solving, enabling comparison across diverse substrates.
Behavior Spaceconcept0.741
A geometric space of all output token probability distributions, equipped with Hellinger distance, used to visualize model behavior.
Cellular Competencyconcept0.739
The problem-solving capacity of cells to rearrange and achieve correct morphology; measured by competency value (max allowed swaps).
problem-solving competencyconcept0.736
The ability to navigate a problem space (metabolic, transcriptional, anatomical) to achieve a goal, central to MCA.
The ability to recruit participants to complete tasks may be a central competency of collective intelligence that works across scales, from cells to swarms.claim0.735
Identifies recruitment as a cross-scale hallmark of collective intelligence.
Multi-scale competency greatly accelerates evolution and enables generalization.claim0.735
Central thesis about the role of agency in evolutionary dynamics.
Competenceconcept0.732
The innate problem-solving capacity of biological subunits at various scales.