Gap junctional coupling scales up the cognitive Self by partially erasing informational boundaries between cells.

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• Gap junctional coupling partially erases informational boundaries between cells, enabling the scaling of the Self to tissue- and organ-level goals.claim0.918
  Proposes a mechanism for how merging physiological states via gap junctions creates a new, larger cognitive agent.
• Gap junctions provide a dynamic that massively augments cooperative interactions and scales cognitive boundary.claim0.873
  Explains the biological mechanism for cognitive scaling.
• Gap junctional coupling wipes ownership information on signaling molecules, enabling the formation of multicellular Selves.claim0.869
  Because cells cannot distinguish internally generated signals from those arriving through GJs, they share memories and bind into a larger agent.
• 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.claim0.820
  Mechanistic claim for how collectives scale.
• Gap junctions enable 'mind meld' through impossibility of information hidingfinding0.802
• Cancer is a breakdown of the collective intelligence of tissues, a shrinking of the Self boundary due to gap junction closure.claim0.792
  Frames metastasis as cells reverting to unicellular goals, treatable by restoring bioelectric connectivity.
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.780
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.
• Bioelectric networks formed by gap junctions scale cell-level homeostatic loops into organ-level anatomical homeostasis.hypothesis0.779
  Proposed mechanism for scaling of goal-directed activity from cells to tissues.