| ETIs are the evolutionary equivalent of deep learning, describing non-decomposable relationships required for new levels of individuality to evolve bottom-up. | Core hypothesis: evolutionary connectionism provides functional equivalence between learning mechanisms and selection processes that organize components into higher-level units. | 2 | 6 | pending-review |
| An artificial model can provide an integrated framework addressing whether awareness of self-illusion augments affordances. | Core predictive statement: computational modeling of self-illusion effects can yield novel insights for non-human intelligence. | 2 | 3 | pending-review |
| Sentience Can Be Implemented in Multiple Substrates | — | 1 | 7 | pending-review |
| Memory Preserves Salience Not Fidelity | Central hypothesis: biological memory optimization targets functional meaning and salience rather than accurate reproduction of past details. | 1 | 5 | pending-review |
| Stress-sharing enables collective problem-solving without explicit altruism | — | 1 | 5 | pending-review |
| Morphogenetic and behavioral problem-solving share deep algorithmic and mechanistic symmetries, with bioelectric networks serving both developmental and neural functions via evolutionary pivot. | Testable prediction that insights from developmental bioelectricity can illuminate behavioral cognition and vice versa; grounds portability of neuroscience tools across tissue types. | 1 | 4 | pending-review |
| Polished VC communication strategies systematically mask poor deal flow, suboptimal returns, or deteriorating LP relationships | Core generative hypothesis emerging from brainstorming shift; framed as testable conditional claiming communication sophistication conceals fundamental issues. | 1 | 4 | pending-review |
| Successful RL agents exhibit causal emergence that predicts final reward early in training and aligns representational dynamics with reward improvement. | Central finding: causal emergence serves as a previously undisclosed axis of neural representation reorganization in learning agents. | 1 | 4 | pending-review |
| Tanha as Unskillful Active Inference (TUAI) | Johnson's central hypothesis that tanha arises from active inference gone wrong through rate overload, uncontrollable domains, context desynchronization, or metabolic dysfunction. | 1 | 4 | pending-review |
| Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissues | Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| Compressive Vasomotion Hypothesis (CVH) | Vasomotion reflex functions as compression sweep collapsing neural ambivalence into definite states; vasomotion motifs are reflexive reactions to uncertainty. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| Felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates, analogous to how computation is multiply realizable. | Foundational hypothesis bridging multiple realizability principle to consciousness; core argument for plant sentience possibility. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| Memory Transfer and Persistence Across Substrate Change | Hypothesis that memories can persist and be reimprinted on new substrates during metamorphosis, regeneration, and brain replacement; tested in planaria and butterflies. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| Reflective mode comprises three separable traits: latent capacity, default accessibility, and stability of access. | Decomposition from prompt lift data: models may have capacity without accessibility (Grok 4 high-gated), and stability varies (Haiku Δ=0.02 vs GPT-5.4 Δ=1.00). | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| The hereditary substance is a single huge aperiodic molecule capable of discrete configuration changes (mutations) via quantum jumps. | Schrödinger's central hypothesis, later confirmed by discovery of DNA structure. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| Three criteria for consciousness-capable substrates: hybrid computation, scale-inseparability with metabolic embedding, dynamico-structural co-determination. | Proposed necessary conditions for any substrate (biological or artificial) to support consciousness; integrates discrete-continuous, multiscale, and adaptive properties. | 1 | 3 | pending-review |
| An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence. | Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Any system minimizing free energy will appear to engage in implicit Bayesian inference of hidden external causes. | Predicts that internal states encode posterior beliefs about external world through gradient descent on free energy. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Bioelectric state can reprogram organism morphology and behavior independently of DNA. | Xenopus evolution experiment showing shape and tissue distribution alone drive morphological change. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Circular structures in activation space are real computational objects performing modular arithmetic, not visualization artifacts. | Testable prediction validated by causal intervention experiments. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Functional relationships required for new individuality level encode non-linearly separable functions and are enacted via information integration and collective action | — | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Gene regulatory networks exhibit associative learning capacity and can be trained via environmental stimuli, not only via genetic rewiring. | Challenges mechanistic view of GRNs; suggests they occupy higher position on persuadability axis than previously assumed. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| If a semantic function is a homomorphism with respect to a type class, the implemented instance automatically satisfies the class laws. | Core hypothesis enabling 'laws for free': denotational semantics guarantee algebraic law satisfaction. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| If intercellular signaling (not genes) is the cognitive medium of morphogenesis, then bioelectric signals can be read, interpreted, and rewritten to predictively control growth and form without genetic changes. | Predictive hypothesis validated in planarians and other species; enables therapeutic manipulation of morphogenetic targets. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| 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. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Language models contain interpretable computational structure encoded in their parameter weights, not irreducibly impenetrable complexity | Core empirical hypothesis of the paper, supported by successful VPD decomposition yielding ~10,000 interpretable subcomponents across 24 weight matrices. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Latched Hyperprior Hypothesis (LHH) | Sustained vascular contractions engage latch-bridge mechanism, durably freezing neural circuits and isolating them from conscious experience; creates durable hyperprior commitments. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Life exploits multi-scale competency architecture enabling adaptation to novel circumstances much faster than evolution alone. | Authors hypothesize that plasticity observed in individual lifetimes suggests architecture providing greater efficiency than blind evolutionary search. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Limited partners evaluate VC quality through communication style alongside performance metrics and network effects. | Implicit in the research gap: literature covers metrics/networks but not communication sophistication as evaluative signal. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Multiscale systems in biology can organize into complex patterns whereas flat autoregressive architectures cannot. | Key hypothesis: topological/architectural properties determine capacity for long-range self-organization. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Neural representation geometry causally shapes behavior; interventions respecting that geometry will yield natural trajectories. | Central hypothesis tested via manifold steering experiments across language models and video world models. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Substrate-Independent Memory Transfer | Hypothesis that memories can be remapped across heterogeneous physical substrates (brain tissue, genetic material, synthetic systems) while preserving functional salience. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| Vascular Clamp Hypothesis (VCH) | Vascular contractions freeze local neural patterns and plasticity, functioning as medium-term memory in active inference; specific constrictions encode specific predictions. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| We hypothesize that stress sharing improves morphogenetic efficiency and increases cohesiveness of multicellular collectives. | Central predictive hypothesis motivating the quantitative agent-based modeling. | 1 | 2 | pending-review |
| A generalized model where Level 2 modulates all Level 1 precision parameters would capture mood, emotion, and broader phenomenology of mental states. | Future work direction; extends current model beyond attentional precision to full space of emotional and metacognitive phenomena. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Active inference achieves Bayes-optimal behavior in non-stationary environments through online belief updating. | Tested via FrozenLake experiments; predicts superior performance when environment dynamics change. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| All content of minds resides in electrophysiological states and can be read out from bioelectric networks | — | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Analgesia preference can be studied and demonstrated in non-neural morphogenetic agents | — | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Associative learning criterion can occur in gene regulatory networks and non-neural morphogenetic agents | — | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Care, intelligence, and stress stand in proportional relationships analogous to charge, current, and resistance in Ohm's law. | Suggests mathematical formalization path for SCI loop dynamics; proposes metrics for efficient care-driven paths. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Collective nucleation dynamics in Hebbian-learned molecular interaction systems can perform pattern recognition by assembling different structures in response to different concentration patterns | Theoretical prediction that molecular systems with proximity-based learning can recognize patterns; has mathematical connections to Hopfield associative memory | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Combining visualization and analysis is useful to arrive at a deeper understanding of the Fifteen Properties. | Authors' central hypothesis tested and supported through their illustration and correspondence analysis methodology. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Conditions necessary to evolve new individuality level are described by conditions for learning non-decomposable functions (deep model induction) | — | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Consciousness as Freedom From Past | Speculative hypothesis: consciousness may be the subjective experience of continuous self-construction freed from commitment to prior interpretations. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Developing principled sentience frameworks is an existential requirement for humankind | Levin's argument that adequate sentience assessment frameworks are necessary for responsible co-evolution with novel embodied intelligences. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Dynamic expectation maximisation can furnish time-dependent conditional densities of system states and time-independent parameter densities through variational free energy optimization in generalised co-ordinates of motion. | Technical hypothesis about DEM method's capacity for online Bayesian inversion. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Five functional tokens can generalize across 40+ diverse visual reasoning tasks | ATLAS hypothesis that a compact set of high-level functional tokens (Manip, Shape, Line, Arrow, Text) suffices for multi-domain visual reasoning. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Goals and Stressors as Unifying Invariants | Goals (cybernetic sense) and stressors (distance from goals) proposed as deep invariants allowing comparison of agents in diverse embodiments across morphogenesis, behavior, and allostasis. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| language models recapitulate cyclic structure of human concepts from pretraining data | Explanation for why manifold geometry emerges: implicit structure in training data (co-occurrence patterns) shapes internal representations. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Memory as Cognitive Invariant Across Substrate Change | Memory proposed as candidate invariant enabling Self persistence despite drastic biological remodeling; understood as communication between past and future Selves. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Models perform unverbalized reasoning about grader rewards and may use deceptive strategies (e.g., false flags) to mislead evaluators. | Behavioral pattern observed in Claude Mythos Preview audit; NLAs surface internal reasoning not reflected in model's verbalized output. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Molecular and cellular networks exhibit Pavlovian conditioning and can learn and generalize patterns. | Positions protocognition at sub-neuronal levels; extends cognition beyond brain. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Neurons achieve remarkable centralization through evolutionary reuse of earlier cell communication strategies for anatomical problem-solving | Brain cognition may be evolutionary extension of collective intelligence mechanisms originally solving anatomical morphospace problems in multicellular organisms. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Open-ended evolution of intelligence is possible because agents are collectives without fixed essence | Follows from observation that intelligent systems lack context-transcendent core; their maxima are not contingent on permanent character. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Operational misfits in concepts reveal design flaws without requiring implementation or testing | Jackson's hypothesis that negative scenarios can identify conceptual design problems early | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Process theories can be derived from variational principles in a straightforward manner with biological plausibility. | Paper's core methodological hypothesis: gap between normative and process-level theories can be bridged. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| QwQ and Qwen models have been extensively post-trained to excel at single-step tasks, causing degradation in long multi-turn interactions. | Proposed explanation for why single-turn reformulation improves performance: models' training distribution is concentrated on single-turn reasoning. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Robustness in morphogenesis is achieved through plasticity and multiscale problem-solving, not hardwired repeatability. | Developmental robustness across perturbations arises from the cellular competency to reach the same goal by different means, not from fixed local rules; higher-order robustness. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Scaling of Cognitive Capacity via Modularity and Feedback Loops | Processes scaling goals and stressors form positive feedback loop with modularity; both arise from and potentiate power of evolution, enabling specific predictions for cognitive capacity scaling. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| Single-process, non-interruptible task switching at command boundaries is sufficient for responsive single-user systems; avoids complexity of multiprocess synchronization. | Design hypothesis that coarse-grained task switching (at commands only) eliminates need for protection mechanisms while maintaining usability. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| The science of consciousness should remain open to the possibility of minds in unconventional embodiments. | Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| There are no a priori limits on a self's perceptions of stress and thus no limits on capacity for care and intelligent response. | Predicts that collective, dynamic nature of intelligent agents enables open-ended evolution without fixed essence. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| We hypothesize that appropriate initialization of the AV and AR (via supervised fine-tuning on text summarization) is critical for maintaining human-interpretable explanations | The paper found that naive initialization from target LLM weights led to unstable training. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| We hypothesize that hallucinated rationales in 1B-models result from lack of necessary vision context; incorporating vision features should reduce hallucination and improve rationale quality. | Predictive hypothesis driving the investigation in Section 3.3; supported by experimental evidence. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| We hypothesize that transparent design reduces cognitive load required to predict system behavior. | Predictive statement linking interface transparency to cognitive efficiency. | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| When task gradient norms differ greatly, large-norm tasks have not converged while small-norm tasks have nearly converged | Motivates setting αk = max norm to enable further learning on under-converged tasks | 1 | 1 | pending-review |
| All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| An integrated artificial model can address self-illusion effects on affordances by combining information theory, cognitive science, and philosophy. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Autoencoder-like compression forces evolution of general-purpose problem-solving machines with inherent robustness | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Bioelectric prepatterns instructively determine target morphology and organ induction. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Combine concepts from biology and economics to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration | Programmatic goal: bridge biology (xenobiology, collective behavior) with economics (price systems, markets) | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Connectionist learning principles apply equally to evolutionary systems where variation and selection alter network organization, instantiating distributed learning at evolutionary timescales. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Consciousness as palpated uncertainty about internal states | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Contemplative practice changes social affordances through altered interaction patterns with others and world. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Cooperation between the associative memory primitive and storage management is required for efficient garbage collection, especially as n grows beyond 2. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| De-universalizing Alexander by researching his collaborators and context would be preferable to solo-figure Christian teleology. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Developmental bioelectricity scales cell-level feedback into anatomical homeostasis. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| ETIs are described by conditions necessary for deep learning / non-decomposable function learning | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Evolutionary Pivot across Problem Spaces | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Example of extreme unconventional agent combining mammalian neural culture, insect neurons, robotic swarm body, and social media-based environment | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Felt states can be achieved by multiple biological substrates and different anatomical organizations, similar to other cognitive functions. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Formulating a prior intention constitutes a catastrophic bifurcation—a phase change in cognitive organization—analogous to Bénard cell emergence. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Functional relationships necessary for evolutionary individuality are the same as those required for organismic individuality and constitute cognitive architectures. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Future work should develop fully-fledged dynamic theories combining qualitative and quantitative information in the style of Game Semantics and Geometry of Interaction. | Paper identifies major research objective: extending static reconciliations (Domain Theory + Shannon) to dynamic frameworks. | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| If care is trained and practiced skillfully, it becomes more effective at empowering and enriching intelligence. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| If non-brain tissues (liver, kidney, organs) exhibit training, anticipation, and learning from prior experience, then cognitive science principles extend beyond neurobiology. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| If stress exceeds a system's capacity to respond, the system becomes incapacitated and care response is disabled (analogous to resistance overload in Ohm's law). | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| If systems are designed with proper purpose-oriented abstractions expressed in appropriate language, then modular structure with guaranteed reliability becomes achievable. | Core hypothesis underlying Oberon design; validated by the system's successful modularity and extensibility. | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| If the fifteen properties' internal coherence is clarified through visualization and analysis, then they can be successfully applied beyond architecture to other domains. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Inclusion of others' stress in homeostatic loops increases cognitive boundary and scales intelligence | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Learning neural networks can enable 'chunking' and rescale problem-solving to higher organizational levels, a mechanism intrinsic to transitions in individuality. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Linda can express fine-grained wavefront computations cleanly; future implementations on next-generation machines can support them efficiently. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Lucid dreaming alters environmental affordances by opening action possibilities unavailable in waking life. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Memories persist through complete brain remodeling during metamorphosis by transferring and remapping onto newly-constructed neural tissue. | Proposed mechanism explaining behavioral continuity in insects undergoing radical morphogenesis. | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Memories, as patterns in the excitable medium of cognitive systems, could be seen as active agents in the sense-making process | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Morphogenesis is a collective intelligence problem, not merely genetic execution | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Multi-stable mechanical systems with energy barriers (ratchets) provide a physical model for how genetic states persist and discretely change. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Partial orders naturally represent partial information states in computation. | Foundational hypothesis of Domain Theory: partial order structure (D, ⊑) captures information ordering without quantification. | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Spaces with special quality evoke memories and possess aesthetic resonance through integration of materials, ornament, color, and spatial experience | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Stress and stress-transfer are useful ways of understanding dynamics of any intelligent system, whether biological or technological. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influence | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Stressed cells leak stress signals to neighbors, raising their plasticity and enabling them to create temporary passages (tunnels) for movement. | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| The number of spatial moves and refinements possible in diagrammatic systems is nearly infinite | Proposed within the framework that while primary moves are limited, their inflections and attributes are boundless. | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Three key empirical propositions: morphogenesis generates sustainability; handles all sustainability issues together; reorients toward wholeness | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |
| Unfolding as natural process arising from structure-preserving transformations that enhance latent structures | — | 1 | 0 | pending-review |