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Integration and collective action (basal cognition) mechanisms enact the functional relationships necessary for new individuality.

Proposes biological mechanisms implementing non-decomposable functions in developmental individuality.

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Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.
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Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.

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Basal cognition refers to processes of information integration and collective action that occur in non-neural substrates – such as in the development of morphological form.quote0.858
Defines basal cognition, central to linking organismic and evolutionary individuality
Functional relationships required for new individuality level encode non-linearly separable functions and are enacted via information integration and collective actionhypothesis0.822
Morphogenesis constitutes basal cognition because it requires information integration and coordinated action characteristic of problem-solving in anatomical morphospace.claim0.813
Cognition and learning are substrate-independent; principles of basal cognition can be implemented by any network with signals and non-linear responses to weighted inputs.claim0.810
Core thesis that cognitive principles transcend neural substrates, enabling application to gene-regulatory, ecological, and social networks.
H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.809
Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
What kinds of functional relationships and interaction structures are necessary to turn a collective into an intelligent system?question0.807
Organised structure of relationships between parts, sufficient to exhibit information integration and collective action, can be produced via fully-distributed unsupervised learning.claim0.803
Central claim from connectionist models: complex coordination emerges without centralized control or external teacher.
Connectionist models of cognition and learning identify conditions where collective intelligence can arise bottom-up, using only distributed learning mechanisms without system-level or global feedback.claim0.800
Central claim about the power of connectionism.

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