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Stress-Care-Intelligence (SCI) Loop

Core framework: stress (perceived mismatch between current and optimal states) → care (engaged concern) → intelligence (capacity to identify and solve problems) → new stresses, in recursive loops. Applies to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.

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Papers (1)

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Thinkers (1)

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  • Olaf Witkowski
    introduces
    Co-author; researcher at Cross Labs and Earth-Life Science Institute; contributes to interdisciplinary AI and biology integration.

Frameworks (3)

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  • Basal Cognition
    implements
    An 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.
  • Autopoiesis
    extends
    Maturana-Varela principle of self-maintaining systems that organize themselves through internal feedback; extended here to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
  • Enactivism
    associated_with
    Theoretical approach treating cognition and self as emergent from embodied interaction; foundational to the paper's 'selfless self' model.

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  • Cognitive Light Cone
    associated_withextends
    Concept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.
  • Anatomical Homeostasis
    implements
    Ability of organisms to adjust anatomy despite injury or rearrangement; demonstrates collective problem-solving in morphospace.
  • Care
    implements
    Engagement and concern in response to stress; the activating driver that transforms intelligence from mere capacity into problem-solving action.
  • Stress Sharing
    associated_with
    Core concept: the hypothesis that cells can leak or export stress signals to neighbors, enabling collective coordination toward morphogenetic goals without explicit altruism.
  • Intelligence
    implements
    Observer-relative competency to identify and solve problems; defined as capacity, not manifest action, across all substrates.
  • Bodhisattva
    associated_with
    Classic Buddhist model for cultivation of care and intelligence; promises care for all sentient beings across space and time; demonstrates expansion of concern beyond self.
  • Stress Transfer
    implements
    Mechanism by which stress becomes mutually transferable between humans and technology, enabling symbiotic integration.
  • Samsara
    associated_with
    Buddhist concept of continuous stress/suffering (dukkha) as inevitable condition of existence; analogous to infinite evolution of stress.
  • "Stress charges care, which in turn enables intelligent output."
    about
    Authors' summary of SCI loop dynamics via Ohm's law analogy (voltage=stress, current=intelligence, resistance=substrate).

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