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"Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"

Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.

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

(2022) · Michael Levin

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