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Defined as discrepancy between current and optimal state; key driver of homeostatic action and intelligence across all systems.
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- Stress Care Intelligence Loopassociated_with
- Homeostatic Loopassociated_withFeedback mechanisms maintaining system states within desired ranges; the minimal engine of goal-directed activity.
- Care as Driver of Intelligenceassociated_withCentral concept proposed as a robust, practical invariant linking intelligence, stress-reduction, and moral obligation across biology, AI, and Buddhist thought.
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- Care and Cognitionmembers_of
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- Equates biological stress with Buddhist suffering.
- Stress is a good candidate for a central invariant across active agents of diverse scale and composition.associated_withBroad interdisciplinary claim from the work.
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- Stress Responserelated_to
- Stress (TAME definition)related_toA system-level state driving homeostatic loops, whose scale indicates cognitive sophistication.
- Anatomical Homeostasissame_concept_asAbility of organisms to adjust anatomy despite injury or rearrangement; demonstrates collective problem-solving in morphospace.
- Careassociated_withEngagement and concern in response to stress; the activating driver that transforms intelligence from mere capacity into problem-solving action.
- Duḥkha (suffering)same_concept_asSuffering arising from dualistic consciousness; mentioned in the cosmological story of the mantra.
- Stress Transferassociated_withMechanism by which stress becomes mutually transferable between humans and technology, enabling symbiotic integration.
- Loss Functionassociated_withIn machine learning, a function measuring the distance between current and desired output; analogous to stress.
- Reward Functionassociated_withIn RL, a scalar signal from the environment that defines the agent's goal; in active inference, reward is just another observation with associated preference.
- Stress mapassociated_withSpatial gradient of stress over the embryo; used to test whether external observers can predict the target morphology.
- stress reservoirassociated_withA finite capacity for stress in each individual; when full, functioning breaks down.
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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.
- The ongoing cost of maintaining counterfactual aspects of experience, conflating 'what is', 'what could be', 'what should be', and 'what will be'.
- The developmental routine where cells move by sharing distress signals; includes with/without stress sharing conditions.