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Stigmergy

Coordination mechanism where subunits leave messages in an external medium; stress sharing functions similarly via leaked stress molecules.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Thinkers (1)

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Concepts (3)

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  • Stress Sharing
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    Core concept: the hypothesis that cells can leak or export stress signals to neighbors, enabling collective coordination toward morphogenetic goals without explicit altruism.
  • Embodiment
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    The idea that intelligence requires a body to interact with the world; expands beyond physical 3D bodies to virtual and interface-mediated forms.
  • Engram
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    Physical/informational substrate of memory; reframed not as static encoded detail but as prompt requiring creative interpretation by receiving system.

Hypotheses (1)

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Related by similarity (8)

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.

  • Memories are stigmergic notes left by past versions of self; communication between temporal slices of the same agent analogous to lateral inter-agent communication.
  • stasisconcept0.719
    The illusion of fixed stability produced by choices of layout, masking the underlying dynamics.
  • Archigraminstitute0.710
    Avant-garde architectural group known for utopian, image-heavy concepts.
  • SyntaxGymframework0.709
    Online platform for targeted evaluation of language models that CausalGym adapts
  • Shape Grammarsframework0.701
    A computational design method based on shape rewriting rules, developed by George Stiny; noted as academic and not yet practically useful for living structure.
  • Shape Grammarmethod0.699
  • Framework for non-equilibrium free energies; mentioned as future direction to generalise results
  • CausalGymframework0.685
    Multi-task benchmark of linguistic behaviours for measuring causal efficacy of interpretability methods, adapted from SyntaxGym