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May 2, 2022

How do small selves integrate into collective intelligences? In my latest podcast w/ @drmichaellevin: - Goals as the universal sign of intelligence - How does selfhood scale up, & how far? - Downsides of becoming nodes in a planetary consciousness musingmind.org/podcasts/colle

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9:07 PM · May 16, 2022

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Been thinking how cells know to act as groups without decoherance. Ie, fertilised egg preservation verse unfertilised. It isn’t mitochondria as both hold it. Why leaf decoherence but not the whole tree, limbs but not whole organism. Coherence held Pre metabolism so it’s not that.

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Part of it could be sharing of stress and of physiological memories via gap junction- and other-mediated identity wiping; some specific hypotheses here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33 & frontiersin.org/articles/10.33 . Decoherence leads to cancer: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding...

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved...

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Humans don't seem to favor cooperation by default, so why do organelles believe they should cooperate and "merge"? Do organelles error-minimize their way to a stress signal their peers will feel by force?

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I think so. You don't need to favor cooperation; once your stress, memories, goals are my stress, memories goals (e.g., via gap junctional connections) it's very hard to maintain individual identities enough to not cooperate. Evolution shapes info exporting -> scaling, coop.

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