Goal-Directedness in Cellular Systems

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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.

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Goal-Directed Activityconcept0.815
Central property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.
Multi-scale goal directednessconcept0.811
Hierarchical goal-seeking at multiple levels of organization.
goal-directed behavioursconcept0.799
Behaviours that are anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, contributing to the inference of cognition.
Goal-Directed Behaviorconcept0.796
Observable behavioral pattern used to infer cognition; shared by plants and animals and proposed as evidence for sentience.
Goal-directed activity as core of Selfclaim0.789
How Do Multicellular Systems Achieve Coherent Goaldirected Behaviorquestion0.787
Cybernetics provides naturalistic, quantitative framework for understanding goal-directedness in biological systemsclaim0.774
Goal Directed Problem Solving Continuumframework0.766