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Bioelectric Networks

Ancient mechanism using ion channels, gap junctions, and neurotransmitters as 'cognitive glue' enabling collective intelligence across morphogenesis and behavior.

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  • Gap Junctions
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    Cellular connections that enable bioelectric communication; form bioelectric networks underlying morphogenetic control and can be manipulated experimentally via molecular reagents.
  • Collective Intelligence
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    Recognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
  • Morphogenesis
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    Process by which cellular collectives generate large-scale structure and form; presented as a collective intelligence problem.
  • Bioelectricity
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    Proposed 'cognitive glue' common to both neural and developmental collective intelligence; implemented by ion channels and electrical synapses.
  • Cognitive glue
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    The mechanisms that bind together composite agents—memories are proposed as one key type of cognitive glue that reifies selves.
  • Cognitive scaling
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    Process by which low-level competencies scale to larger problem-solving abilities across levels of organization.
  • Ion Channels
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    Proteins that set membrane potential; function as transistors with historicity, forming the hardware of bioelectric networks.
  • Resting Membrane Potential (Vmem)
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    Electrostatic difference across cell membranes set by ion channels; the fundamental information-processing currency of bioelectric networks in development and behavior.
  • Evolutionary Pivot
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    Levin's model of how evolution repurposed ancient bioelectric machinery originally used for morphogenesis into neural control of behavior in 3D space.

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  • Morphospace
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    A problem space that represents possible anatomical and morphological configurations available to biological systems. Developmental collectives (cells, tissues) navigate this space through adaptive morphogenetic problem-solving to achieve organism-scale goals and body configurations, functioning as a precursor concept to higher-dimensional behavioral spaces.
  • Bioelectric Gene Networks
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  • Basal Cognition
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    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.

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