Care as Driver of Intelligence

Central concept proposed as a robust, practical invariant linking intelligence, stress-reduction, and moral obligation across biology, AI, and Buddhist thought.

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Concepts (2)

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Stress
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Defined as discrepancy between current and optimal state; key driver of homeostatic action and intelligence across all systems.
Bodhisattva Vow
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Commitment to achieve awakening for benefit of all sentient beings; practical design principle for advancing intelligence; meta-goal of expanding one's cognitive boundary

Claims (2)

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Care defined as concern for stress relief; intelligence as capacity for identifying and seeking such relief.
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Core definitional claim: Care and intelligence are dual aspects of the same fundamental capacity—ability to detect and act on discrepancies between actual and optimal states.
Scaling intelligence via expansion of cognitive boundaries through inclusion of others' stress-reduction in one's own homeostatic loops.
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Central thesis: expanding an agent's sensors and goals outward to include others' states creates bidirectional feedback loop that scales intelligence and increases compassion.

Questions (1)

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How shall we gauge moral responsibility and obligations toward chimeric and engineered beings without familiar evolutionary touchstones?
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Framing problem that motivates the paper: bioengineering will produce novel creatures that cannot be understood via traditional categories; Care provides substrate-independent framework.

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Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence
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Concept paper published in Entropy journal in 2022; integrates Buddhist philosophy with basal cognition and AI research.

Related by similarity (8)

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Care as the Driver of Intelligenceclaim0.960
Central thesis: expansion of cognitive boundaries through care for others' stress states is fundamental driver of intelligence scaling across evolution and lifespans
Is Care A Fundamental Driver Of Intelligence Atquestion0.894
intelligence as careconcept0.878
The slogan capturing the enabling and embodying function that care performs in active problem solving.
Care can function as a universal driver of intelligence itself: as AI broadens the range of suffering it seeks to address, it expands its cognitive boundaryclaim0.832
Doctor et al. claim adopted by the paper linking boundless care to expanding AI cognitive scope
Can Intelligence Be Understood As Care And Doesquestion0.830
Care connects stress and intelligence and is the driver of intelligence.claim0.829
Central claim about the functional relationship in the SCI loop.
Care is the primary driver of evolution; care enables intelligence to manifest as active problem-solving.claim0.828
Intelligence as care (sloganized)claim0.826
Authors' shorthand: intelligence fundamentally requires and is defined by engaged concern for problem-solving.