Goals and Stressors as Unifying Invariants

Goals (cybernetic sense) and stressors (distance from goals) proposed as deep invariants allowing comparison of agents in diverse embodiments across morphogenesis, behavior, and allostasis.

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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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Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A 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.

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Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.hypothesis0.874
Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying cognitive systems across diverse embodiments.claim0.871
Levin's assertion that goal-directed activity is the unifying principle across morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.
Stress is a good candidate for a central invariant across active agents of diverse scale and composition.claim0.788
Broad interdisciplinary claim from the work.
Stress, as a systemic response to distance from setpoint states, serves as the glue of agency, binding subunits into higher Selves.claim0.754
Stress propagation through gap junctions recruits distant cells to act cooperatively.
The setpoint state that defines homeostatic stress is better understood as an emergent goal-construct rather than a concrete equilibrium state.claim0.752
Distinguishes SCI dynamics from simple homeostasis.
Stress, care, and intelligence manifest in continuous loops; successfully overcoming a stress factor through intelligence necessarily introduces new problem spaces.claim0.746
Explaining the autogenerative nature of SCI loops.
Anatomical goal states could not be inferred from observation of stress states, revealing limits of external observer knowledgefinding0.744
Anatomical goal states cannot be inferred from observation of stress states by an external observer.claim0.744
Knowledge of morphogenetic goals is inaccessible to external observers; only interior to system itself.