Cognitive LightCones

When cognition scales, matter wakes up.

Michael Levin says every system that learns to pursue goals has a “cognitive lightcone,” the slice of reality it can care about.

A bacterium tracks sugar. A human plans for centuries.

Life is matter expanding what it can care about. pic.twitter.com/h63wvlPM72
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