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Synthetic biotic constructs made from repurposed frog embryo skin cells that form self-motile robots with novel morphologies and behaviors including kinematic self-replication; demonstrate cellular competency beyond normal developmental constraints.
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Thinkers (2)
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- Michael Levincites
- Dani Kriegmanassociated_with
Concepts (6)
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- Recognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- IntelligenceaboutObserver-relative competency to identify and solve problems; defined as capacity, not manifest action, across all substrates.
- All possible agents beyond natural biological species, including engineered and alien ones.
- Cellular CompetencyaboutThe problem-solving capacity of cells to rearrange and achieve correct morphology; measured by competency value (max allowed swaps).
- The ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.
- Biobotssubtype_ofSynthetic living machines with predictable behavior.
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- Explanation for the success of combining divergent living and nonliving components.
- Highlights extraordinary plasticity and problem-solving.
Frameworks (2)
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- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
- Bowtie ArchitectureaboutA compression-based architectural pattern in which complex, high-dimensional information passes through a low-dimensional bottleneck hub, requiring creative reinterpretation or reconstruction during decompression. The framework appears across biological signaling, neural development, evolution, and machine learning (particularly autoencoders), formalizing how systems achieve memory generalization and information efficiency through constrained information flow.
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- Organisms designed by evolutionary algorithm from Xenopus cells whose behavior is purely a function of evolved shape, not genomic information — inverting normal software/hardware conception
- Arran Crawford's term for a Buddhism for alien/machine intelligence; precursor to machine Buddhism.
- Xenobots’ anatomical and behavioral goals are emergent, rather than directly selected over aeons.claim0.733Argues that goal states arise without direct evolutionary sculpting.
- Xenobots self-assembled from frog skin cells exhibit kinematic self-replication across generationsfinding0.732Cited (Kriegman et al. 2021) as evidence that evolutionarily-unselected constructs display unpredicted novel competencies.
- From Kriegman et al. (2021), a novel mode of reproduction never before seen.
- Robots trained to exhibit useful emergent behavior whose global behavior is irreducible to individual actions, used to argue against machine predictability