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quote:cognitive-glue-that-enables-emergent-agents-to-support-associative-memories-over-their-subunits-is-neural-bioelectricity"cognitive glue that enables emergent agents to support associative memories over their subunits is neural bioelectricity"
Load-bearing claim that bioelectric coordination underlies both anatomical collective behavior and neural cognition.
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extracted_from(2024) · Patrick McMillen · Michael Levin
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- Captures the proposed role of bioelectricity in binding cells into unified agents.
- Identifies bioelectric networks as the medium of basal cognition.
- Central metaphor of the paper.
- Canonical definition of the paper's central concept; encapsulates mechanism of cognitive scaling through bioelectric integration.
- Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.
- Core thesis: bioelectric networks provide the mechanism by which single-cell homeostasis becomes organism-level agency through integration and feedback loops.
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