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concept:minimal-cognitionMinimal Cognition
Field studying evolutionary origins of cognitive capacities in bacteria, slime moulds, plants, tissues; demonstrates sentience need not require high-order reflection.
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- Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural speciesassociated_withcites
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- Michael Levinstudies
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- Basal Cognitionassociated_withAn 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.
- Quantitative, operationalizable criteria proposed by Crump et al. that Levin argues can be generalized beyond natural species.
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- Basal Cognition Frameworkmembers_of
- Sentience Detection Frameworkmembers_of
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- Problem Of Other Mindsassociated_withPhilosophical problem underlying sentience assessment: how to determine consciousness in beings unlike ourselves.
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- The commentary paper by Michael Levin.
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- di Primio et al. (2000) empirical work supporting cognitive capabilities in single cells; evidence for biogenic cognition.
- Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.
- Alexander's thesis that wholeness and the fifteen properties are objectively real, not artifacts of cognition, and are fundamental to physics and biology.