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Benjamin Lyons

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  • Cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities: the economics of collective intelligence2026

    Levin and Lyons argue that the price system in market economies is not merely a resource-allocation device but the canonical instantiation of what they term a *cognitive glue* — a coordinating affordance that allows autonomous, heterogeneous agents operating at multiple scales to form mutually compatible plans without requiring centralized direction. Deploying the TAME (Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere) framework, published in *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A* 384(2320), the paper formalizes cognitive glue as a shared model of relative scarcities, and claims that any system achieving genuine collective intelligence must solve the Hayekian distributed-knowledge problem in broadly the same structural way that price signals do: by compressing dispersed local information into a substrate-neutral, action-guiding representation that propagates across the system. The paper introduces the price system as a *generic template* — an abstract model against which candidate cognitive glues in biological, social, and artificial multi-scale systems can be evaluated. This implies that identifying the cognitive glue of any collective intelligence (a neural assembly, an immune system, a venture-capital network) requires locating the mechanism that encodes and transmits relative scarcities across subunits, and that designing or enhancing collective intelligence is, at root, a problem of designing better shared scarcity models.

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