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finding:lesioning-active-sensory-or-internal-states-causes-rapid-structural-disintegration-and-loss-of-spatial-organizationLesioning active, sensory, or internal states causes rapid structural disintegration and loss of spatial organization.
Demonstrates autopoietic maintenance: Markov blanket integrity is necessary for preserving internal state configuration.
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- Reframes definition of life focusing on dynamical self-organization rather than genetic reproduction.
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- Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
- Cells as goal-directed agents maintaining anatomical representations through gap-junction-mediated information integration; cancer as cognitive defection when collective Self boundaries collapse.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Simulation result demonstrating autopoietic maintenance and oscillator death after lesions.
- Causal link between perception and destruction.
- Proposition 3 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim linking the mathematical process of unfolding to the emergence of I-likeness in natural and built structures.
- Key empirical observation motivating analysis of positive vs negative steering directions
- Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
- Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty