Liquid Brains

Collective intelligences where subunits can move and interact fluidly, as opposed to rigid neural architectures.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

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.

Liquid Brain Hypothesisclaim0.850
Ant colonies are 'liquid brains' due to shifting connectivity; extended metaphorically to all brains being 'liquid in time' through reinterpreting mental content across moments.
brainconcept0.837
The conventional biological substrate assumed necessary for consciousness.
Solid Brainsconcept0.789
Conventional brains where neurons maintain relatively fixed positions; a subset of collective intelligences.
Neuroscienceinstitute0.734
mindsconcept0.730
Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.
Beings with brains are, in an important sense, also collective intelligences.claim0.729
Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
Whole Brain Emulationconcept0.727
A type of digital mind that is an exact digital copy of a biological human brain, relevant to non-discrimination principles
Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousnessinstitute0.724
Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers