Gap junctions enable 'mind meld' through impossibility of information hiding

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• Mind Meld (via gap junctions)concept0.869
  The process by which cells lose individuality and form a collective cognitive unit through gap junctional coupling.
• Gap junctions provide a dynamic that massively augments cooperative interactions and scales cognitive boundary.claim0.822
  Explains the biological mechanism for cognitive scaling.
• Gap junctional coupling scales up the cognitive Self by partially erasing informational boundaries between cells.hypothesis0.802
  A mechanistic model: loss of ownership information on internal signals fuses cells into larger agents.
• Gap junctions provide an 'owner wiping property' for signaling molecules, leading to partial erasure of individual identity for cells in a network and enabling a higher-order emergent collective.claim0.797
  Mechanistic claim for how collectives scale.
• Gap junctional coupling wipes ownership information on signaling molecules, enabling the formation of multicellular Selves.claim0.793
  Because cells cannot distinguish internally generated signals from those arriving through GJs, they share memories and bind into a larger agent.
• How Do Gap Junctions Enable Partial Erasure Ofquestion0.780
• Gap junctional coupling partially erases informational boundaries between cells, enabling the scaling of the Self to tissue- and organ-level goals.claim0.773
  Proposes a mechanism for how merging physiological states via gap junctions creates a new, larger cognitive agent.
• If gap junction-mediated bioelectric networks implement the unified Self, then gap junction blockers should function as general anesthetics across biology.hypothesis0.746
  Already supported by data in plants, Hydra, and humans, but broader cross-species testing is predicted.