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quote:tell-me-what-you-are-stressed-about-and-i-will-know-a-lot-about-your-cognitive-sophisticationTell me what you are stressed about and I will know a lot about your cognitive sophistication.
Box 1 epigraph summarizing the idea that the scope of stress defines the scale of the Self.
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extracted_from(2022) · Michael Levin
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- Stress is a systemic response to setpoint deviations that scales up homeostatic loops and binds subunits into a larger Self.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Encapsulates the cognitive light cone idea.
- The scope of states that an agent can be stressed about defines its degree of cognitive capacity.claim0.790Stress expands the spatial, temporal, and complexity scale of goals.
- Core intervention prompt; load-bearing because it is the mechanism whose effects are measured.
- Summarizing Selye's model.
- There are no a priori limits on a self's perceptions of stress and thus no limits on capacity for care and intelligent response.hypothesis0.766Predicts that collective, dynamic nature of intelligent agents enables open-ended evolution without fixed essence.
- Argues that outward-facing care expands cognitive boundaries.
- Distinguishing intelligence as capacity from its expression.