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We hypothesize that cell collectives use voltage as a generalization parameter to repurpose responses for novel stress conditions.

Barium planaria experiment suggests cells generalize via physiological stress classes, with Vmem as macrovariable.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Membrane voltage acts as a coarse-grained parameter subsuming many ion channel combinations.
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Cells generalize over ion channel microstates via macrovariable Vmem, enabling repurposing of responses for novel stimuli.

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Cells exhibit generalization in physiological space, recognizing novel stressors as members of familiar classes to deploy transcriptional solutions.hypothesis0.840
Predicts that cells can categorize perturbations and mount appropriate, not just hardwired, responses.
"By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell's problem becomes everyone's problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations."concept0.816
Load-bearing statement capturing the core mechanism of stress sharing as social coordination.
By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell's (or region's) problem becomes everyone's problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone's free energy is lower.concept0.812
By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell’s (or region’s) problem becomes everyone’s problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone’s free energy is lower (and thus, more optimal morphogenetic problem-solving).quote0.809
Encapsulates the core idea of stress sharing as collective cooperation.
Cells and cellular networks have problem-solving capacities that allow them to navigate entirely novel stressors (e.g., barium) without prior selection, implying a general competency beyond hardwired responses.claim0.800
Derived from the planarian barium adaptation finding.
The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.797
Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
We hypothesize that stress sharing improves morphogenetic efficiency and increases cohesiveness of multicellular collectives.hypothesis0.790
Central predictive hypothesis motivating the quantitative agent-based modeling.
Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influencehypothesis0.785