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concept:stress-as-the-glue-of-agencyStress as the Glue of Agency
Stress is a systemic response to setpoint deviations that scales up homeostatic loops and binds subunits into a larger Self.
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- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
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- The scope of states that an agent can be stressed about defines its degree of cognitive capacity.aboutassociated_withStress expands the spatial, temporal, and complexity scale of goals.
- Stress propagation through gap junctions recruits distant cells to act cooperatively.
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- Collective Intelligenceassociated_withRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Gap Junctionsassociated_withCellular connections that enable bioelectric communication; form bioelectric networks underlying morphogenetic control and can be manipulated experimentally via molecular reagents.
- Scaling of the cognitive SelfsupportsThe process by which smaller agents join into a larger emergent Self with expanded cognitive light cones, mediated by gap junctions.
- Scaling Of The SelfsupportsMechanisms by which smaller competent subunits bind into a higher-level Self with larger goals; key example via gap junction connections.
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- Box 1 epigraph summarizing the idea that the scope of stress defines the scale of the Self.
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- Explains how local homeostatic loops scale up to whole-body goals via shared stress signals.
- Defined as discrepancy between current and optimal state; key driver of homeostatic action and intelligence across all systems.
- Broad interdisciplinary claim from the work.
- Interpretation of why stress sharing improves morphogenesis.
- Capacity for autonomous action; requires formal definition linking to selfhood, control, and sense of agency.
- The subjective feeling of controlling one's actions.