The evolution of nervous systems was built upon pre-neural bioelectric circuits.

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• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.834
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• Bioelectric networks discovered by evolution ~time of bacterial biofilms; served as ideal medium for scaling computation and information synthesis before neural systems.finding0.823
  Evidence that pre-neural bioelectric infrastructure predates and likely precedes neurobiology; supports continuity of intelligence across substrates.
• The bioelectric system is so versatile that it was readily exapted for behavior when nerve and muscle evolved, with a speed-up and focus on temporal signaling.claim0.805
  Explains the evolutionary pivot from morphospace to behavioral space.
• Neural bioelectric networks achieve a critical separation of hardware and software: the same molecular substrate can instantiate different informational content based on history, enabling minds to arise from matter.claim0.805
  Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.
• Developmental bioelectricity is an ancient precursor to nervous systems, later exapted for fast behavioral control.claim0.805
  Posits deep evolutionary continuity between somatic pattern control and neural cognition.
• Evolution pivoted bioelectric networks' control of spatial pattern during morphogenesis into nervous systems' control of temporal patterns during behavior.claim0.804
  Hypothesis on evolutionary origin of behavioral intelligence from morphogenetic competencies.
• What Is The Evolutionary Origin Of Nervous Systemsquestion0.795
• Bioelectric networks scale cell computation into anatomical homeostasis and are a mechanism for evolving larger Selves.claim0.794
  Developmental bioelectricity is proposed as a tractable entry point to understand the informational architecture of collective intelligence in morphogenesis.