Goal-Directed Behavior

Observable behavioral pattern used to infer cognition; shared by plants and animals and proposed as evidence for sentience.

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William James
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Philosopher cited for the principle 'thoughts are thinkers'—foundational to Levin's framework of active memory.

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Goal-Directedness
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Proposed universal invariant of cognition and intelligence—capacity for goal-directed activity in a problem space, independent of substrate or embodiment.
Goal-Directed Activity
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Central property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.
goal-directed behaviours
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Behaviours that are anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, contributing to the inference of cognition.
Teleonomy
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Goal-directed behavior framework; referenced in plant cognition context.
Cognition
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Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.

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Goal Directed Frameworkframework0.813
Goal-directed activity as core of Selfclaim0.807
Multi-scale goal directednessconcept0.802
Hierarchical goal-seeking at multiple levels of organization.
Goal Directed Problem Solving Continuumframework0.802
Behavior-based Pathconcept0.797
The path in activation space derived by optimizing steering interventions to produce outputs along the behavior manifold, independent of representation geometry.
Behavioral Trajectoryconcept0.796
The path traced through output probability distribution space as interventions are applied to activations
Goal-Directedness in Cellular Systemsconcept0.796
Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from if it is not explicitly programmed?question0.787
Opening research question of the paper.