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Intelligence

Observer-relative competency to identify and solve problems; defined as capacity, not manifest action, across all substrates.

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  • Basal Cognition
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    An interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
  • Stress Care Intelligence Loop
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  • Xenobots
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    Synthetic biotic constructs made from repurposed frog embryo skin cells that form self-motile robots with novel morphologies and behaviors including kinematic self-replication; demonstrate cellular competency beyond normal developmental constraints.

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Concepts (7)

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  • Care
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    Engagement and concern in response to stress; the activating driver that transforms intelligence from mere capacity into problem-solving action.
  • Intelligence is the ability to reach the same goal through different means.
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    William James definition of intelligence; foundational to paper's framing of competency and problem-solving as core invariants.
  • Intelligence: the ability to reach the same ends by different means.
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    William James definition of intelligence; used by Levin as a load-bearing definition underlying the entire morphogenetic intelligence framework.
  • Artificial Intelligence
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    Domain where consciousness theories are being applied to synthetic systems; part of broader context of unconventional embodiments.
  • Individual intelligence
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    Intelligence typically associated with a single organism and its nervous system; argued here to also be a product of collective composition.
  • Teleonomy
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    Goal-directed behavior framework; referenced in plant cognition context.
  • Stress-Care-Intelligence (SCI) Loop
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    Core framework: stress (perceived mismatch between current and optimal states) → care (engaged concern) → intelligence (capacity to identify and solve problems) → new stresses, in recursive loops. Applies to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.

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