Example of extreme unconventional agent combining mammalian neural culture, insect neurons, robotic swarm body, and social media-based environment

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• Morphogenesis is an example of collective intelligence and goal-directed activity.claim0.764
  Cells work together to build structures in a context-dependent manner, meeting James' test of 'fixed ends with varying means'.
• Non-neural morphogenetic agents satisfy most sentience criteria via electrically active cells rather than neuronsfinding0.762
  Empirical basis for expanding sentience frameworks; shows Crump criteria adaptable beyond traditional neurocentric definitions.
• Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.759
  Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
• Bioelectric networks discovered by evolution ~time of bacterial biofilms; served as ideal medium for scaling computation and information synthesis before neural systems.finding0.754
  Evidence that pre-neural bioelectric infrastructure predates and likely precedes neurobiology; supports continuity of intelligence across substrates.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.751
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Morphogenesis is an example of basal cognition, a collective intelligence of cells navigating morphospace.claim0.751
  Asserts that developmental biology can be understood through the lens of problem-solving and cognitive concepts.
• Artificially evolved neural networks and robots often lack modularity unless it is directly selected for, and exhibit inefficiencies from evolutionarily duplicated sub-structures.finding0.748
  Evidence that evolved machines share biological property of non-optimal modularity, blurring the distinction
• The boundary between evolved and designed agents is becoming blurred through biorobotics and synthetic morphology.claim0.748