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Front Psychol July 2016 PMID 27445884

On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems.

František Baluška, Michael Levin

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The discussions reveal a strong consensus that cognition is not limited to neural systems, with examples like cell signaling, bioelectricity, and evolutionary perspectives emphasizing the broad implications of the article. The tone is enthusiastic and exploratory, reflecting a keen interest in expanding traditional views of cognition.

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Most discussions strongly support the idea that cognition exists beyond brains, reflecting high agreement with the article's premise.

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  • The central nervous system (CNS) is key for memory and decision-making in organisms, but neural networks are not the only biological systems capable of signaling functions; many signaling processes predate the CNS in evolution and are used in cellular activities like development and behavior.
  • Different biological hardware, such as single-celled organisms, plants, and tissues, can implement cognitive processes like memory and learning through molecular mechanisms, highlighting the diversity of ways cognition can occur beyond neural networks.
  • Exploring cognition in non-neural systems is an interdisciplinary area with broad implications for understanding evolution, cell biology, medicine, and bioengineering, and it raises questions about how information processing can happen in biological systems without a brain.]
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This thread https://t.co/UlF9cof7i1 discussed whether applying cognitive terms to things other than brains (e.g., cell swarms during morphogenesis) is inflationary. I do a careful argument about it here https://t.co/KdfLl7cUOP and here https://t.co/ipclSBzdRj, but

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"On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems" https://t.co/I5pVsln9Yj This is the good shit right here. #EmbodiedCognition #neurology #biology

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On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/r23c0gUtsu https://t.co/Wlixm6kijh

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@GeorgeB_Green https://t.co/8FeX2MC7Bm and many similar reviews in the diverse intelligence literature - there are tons, from microbes and minimal active matter to cells, organs, swarms, colonies, etc.

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References Alevizos, P. D. (2018). Scatter-Radio Networks for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Baluška, F., & Levin, M. (2016). On having no head: Cognition throughout biological systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 902. Commey, D., et al. (2024). Securing

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Richard Lucas
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@leecronin There are many levels of intelligence exhibited in the plant and animal kingdoms already. Predicting your environment is a fitness trait; evolution selects for it. Intelligence is not mystical. It's a fundamental fact of life. https://t.co/1kk0Ur3AW4

Apr 6, 2023 · 712 followers View post →
Michael Levin
@drmichaellevin · X

@GeorgeB_Green https://t.co/8FeX2MC7Bm and many similar reviews in the diverse intelligence literature - there are tons, from microbes and minimal active matter to cells, organs, swarms, colonies, etc.

Mar 30, 2023 · 6 likes · 70,329 followers View post →
Nuno Luciano
@nunoluciano · X

New approaches to target the processes that implement anatomical decision-making without genetic engineering. On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/sUqfZpDvR5

Mar 4, 2023 · 463 followers View post →
John Smith⚛ (Explorer of Reality)
@doofgeek4011 · X

RT @MikaelKrauze: Insightful open-access paper from František Baluška and @drmichaellevin on basal cognition and the value of an informatio…

Feb 6, 2023 · 1 share · 4,375 followers View post →
Mikael Krauze - Telic Thoughts
@MikaelKrauze · X

Insightful open-access paper from František Baluška and @drmichaellevin on basal cognition and the value of an informational perspective over a mechanistic perspective. https://t.co/tcFwyRaHil

Feb 6, 2023 · 2 likes · 1 share · 761 followers View post →
釜屋憲彦
@kamaUmwelt · X

memo. Frontiers | On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/FlesoXmB4R

Jan 27, 2023 · 2 likes · 1,531 followers View post →
khellstr
@kHellstr · X

@MikeDonio What keeps life living. What drives life. As clearly it is not the genomics. Also, how gravity works and what comes after Einsteins delusions are finally thrown away. https://t.co/TlNHw8wVT8

Nov 4, 2022 · 1 like · 1,191 followers View post →
Eugene
@eugediana · X

@philosophising4 @davidasinclair https://t.co/VKzgLfIqwX

Sep 24, 2022 · 2 likes · 221 followers View post →
fronx
@fronxer · X

Today's morning reading is about cognition without neurons: Baluška F and Levin M (2016) On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/0SUerEtTl0 https://t.co/oHDp6i7o5f

Jun 8, 2022 · 548 followers View post →
Micah Johnston
@micahrjohnston · X

On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/r23c0gUtsu https://t.co/Wlixm6kijh

Feb 4, 2022 · 11 likes · 1 share · 1,207 followers View post →
Raja
@somdatta · X

https://t.co/oGRowb6YaR

Jan 13, 2022 · 315 followers View post →
Justin Lefkowitz
@jstarklefkowitz · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 12, 2022 · 10 shares · 147 followers View post →
Harikanth Lingutla
@harikanth_eth · X

@drmichaellevin https://t.co/zeuLxu3ZXP at 25:20 Dr. Levin says, we evolved to experience agencies outward but not at micro/nano timescales or levels. Wonderful ideas all around. Do we as humans have ability to inward at nano levels/timescales but lost it ?

Jan 12, 2022 · 1 like · 16 followers View post →
* Checks Notes, Shakes Head *
@balicea1 · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 407 followers View post →
Thomas O'Brien
@listenaddress · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 225 followers View post →
Daniel of the Shire
@countrsignal · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 751 followers View post →
Marcus van der Erve✨
@MarcusErve · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 2,094 followers View post →
Postgenetic Code
@Postgenetic · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 201 followers View post →
nessun dorma ☺️
@mmdr36 · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 600 followers View post →
Will Ratcliff
@wc_ratcliff · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 8,475 followers View post →
Michael Levin
@drmichaellevin · X

RT @demystifysci: First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix…

Jan 11, 2022 · 10 shares · 70,328 followers View post →
Anastasia
@demystifysci · X

First episode of 2022! A conversation with @drmichaellevin about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix what is broken simply by knowing the languages and motivational structures of cells: https://t.co/rbAlXeuf0l

Jan 10, 2022 · 54 likes · 10 shares · 6,241 followers View post →
CD Castillo
@sndlg · X

Insisto, sé que hablamos de eucariotas pequeños, pero parece descripción de los políticos de la actual administración federal. On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/wOPGWPJTyh

Nov 20, 2021 · 210 followers View post →
ciencias cognitivas
@cienciascogcorp · X

@JRBneuropsiq @hildherlo Este artículo, desde mi punto de vista, describe de forma muy bonita los múltiples niveles de organización biológica y sugiere una perspectiva unificada de los sistemas cognitivos. https://t.co/fWVp6yFAhZ

Aug 23, 2021 · 1 like · 188 followers View post →
Michael Levin
@drmichaellevin · X

@danbri @olcan The focused one is still being written, but pieces are in: https://t.co/f0z9S9OMKe https://t.co/yWpa0MwFsb https://t.co/27cRN5ZhIG https://t.co/BM6CrVsK1g https://t.co/ipclSBzdRj https://t.co/p14Yviw86m https://t.co/K095xgm4Ts https://t.co/k4Zf7hbAPL https://t.co/uGMXVfunFF

May 20, 2021 · 2 likes · 70,329 followers View post →
Richard Lucas
@EpistemiclyRich · X

Excellent survey paper. At first it seems like it goes too far (everything is thinking!?), but once you look at the evidence, how else could plants and animals do so well? https://t.co/1kk0Ur3AW4

May 13, 2021 · 1 like · 712 followers View post →
John Dobbin
@JohnDobbin · X

@_fernando_rosas yes https://t.co/099tr9HdFp

Mar 28, 2021 · 3 likes · 2,711 followers View post →
Andy Xor
@andy_xor · X

RT @gfbertini: On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems | Learning Sciences https://t.co/F0M2Tu5HRB

Feb 12, 2021 · 1,419 followers View post →
IamtheWalrus
@IamtheW60512589 · X

Frontiers | On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems | Psychology https://t.co/4fg6kjUvZh https://t.co/xBw4uS2PT4

Feb 11, 2021 · 72 followers View post →
Giorgio Bertini
@gfbertini · X

On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems | Learning Sciences https://t.co/F0M2Tu5HRB

Feb 2, 2021 · 1 like · 2,264 followers View post →
Nuno Luciano
@nunoluciano · X

New approaches to target the processes that implement anatomical decision-making without genetic engineering. On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/KiT7wE1jRt

Oct 24, 2020 · 463 followers View post →
Orthogonal Research and Education Lab
@Orthogonal_Lab · X

On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems https://t.co/NYhBwyXDUA

Sep 26, 2020 · 497 followers View post →
Misha
@drethelin · X

RT @drethelin: "On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems" https://t.co/I5pVsln9Yj This is the good shit right here. #E…

Jun 27, 2020 · 4 shares · 5,657 followers View post →
Misha
@drethelin · X

RT @drethelin: "On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems" https://t.co/I5pVsln9Yj This is the good shit right here. #E…

Oct 14, 2019 · 4 shares · 5,657 followers View post →
MΔ5K
@maskoficarus · X

RT @drethelin: "On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems" https://t.co/I5pVsln9Yj This is the good shit right here. #E…

Aug 30, 2019 · 4 shares · 1,363 followers View post →
Misha
@drethelin · X

"On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems" https://t.co/I5pVsln9Yj This is the good shit right here. #EmbodiedCognition #neurology #biology

Aug 29, 2019 · 13 likes · 4 shares · 5,657 followers View post →
zenrud
@ZenrudMB · X

On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016) https://t.co/kC5WG7eVQa #Head #CognitionThroughoutBiologicalSystems

Mar 30, 2019 · 58 followers View post →
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