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concept:physarum-slime-moldPhysarum (Slime Mold)
Single-celled organism demonstrating learning, decision-making, and problem-solving in absence of neurons; exemplifies basal cognition without a brain.
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- Basal CognitioncitesAn 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.
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- The notion that a sufficiently accurate simulation of consciousness could cross into authentic consciousness.
- A computing layer above physical hardware; Sloman uses this as an analogy for mental processes not reducible to physics.
- Foundational definitional question motivating the entire paper
- A dimension of the environment linked to wholeness and the sacred, beyond material concerns.