Journal articles: 'Collective cognition'

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Sitkin, Sim B. "SHAPING COLLECTIVE COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR THROUGH COLLECTIVE LEARNING." Academy of Management Proceedings 2000, no. 1 (August 2000): B1—B6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/apbpp.2000.5535126.

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Fadul, Jose A. "Collective Learning: Applying Distributed Cognition for Collective Intelligence." International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 16, no. 4 (2009): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v16i04/46223.

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Pulsifer, Rebecah. "Interwar Imaginings of Collective Cognition." Modernist Cultures 15, no. 2 (May 2020): 155–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0287.

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Scholarship on interwar understandings of ‘collective cognition’ – experiences of intellectual union with others – tends to focus on its capacity to threaten individuality. I counter this trend by investigating prose works by H.D., Olive Moore, Rebecca West, and H.G. Wells that champion collective cognition for its capacity to compose communities. I argue that these texts point to an underexplored strand that existed in and alongside modernism in which authors turned to collective cognition to imagine radically egalitarian communities that transcend hierarchies based on history, nationality, and species. After the Second World War, the cultural meanings of collective cognition narrowed, and ‘thinking together’ came to be strongly associated with loss of freedom and loss of self. This article shows that collective cognition emitted a powerfully hopeful potential for a significant cluster of interwar authors, who used it to imagine the peaceful and abundant possibilities of collectivity.

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Couzin, Iain D. "Collective cognition in animal groups." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13, no. 1 (January 2009): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.10.002.

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Ryynänen, Harri, Kaisa Henttonen, and Risto Tapio Salminen. "Inter-organizational cognitive structures: network conception in MobileTV case." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 30, no. 5 (June 1, 2015): 662–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-08-2013-0187.

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Purpose – This paper aims to explore collective cognitive structures in business networks by analyzing the coherency of network pictures in a service development network. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the network pictures construct as a tool to analyze collective cognitive structures in a service development network. The studied case and unit of analysis is a focal network developing a consumer mobile TV service. Findings – Based on the empirical evidence, the authors found that individuals’ cognitive structures vary extensively in the studied focal network. In addition, collective cognitive structures in intra- and inter-organizational settings differ, and thus should be distinguished. Research limitations/implications – The research findings are based on a single case study. This study is one of the first attempts to apply network pictures as a research device in industrial marketing. The concept of network conception is put forward, distinguishing intra- and inter-organizational levels of collective cognition. Practical implications – The employed conceptual tool is proposed for application also when forming a business network, where it is important to make all actors’ (i.e. persons and companies) perspectives on the emerging focal business network visible. Originality/value – To study the focal network-level collective cognitive structures further, the authors propose the concept of network conception to represent the phenomenon. The present study contributes to the research on collective cognitive structures in industrial marketing by extending understanding on individual- and organizational-level cognitions to a focal network-level collective cognition.

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Visscher, P. Kirk, and Scott Camazine. "Collective decisions and cognition in bees." Nature 397, no. 6718 (February 1999): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/17047.

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Canonico, Lorenzo Barberis, Christopher Flathmann, and Nathan McNeese. "Collectively Intelligent Teams: Integrating Team Cognition, Collective Intelligence, and AI for Future Teaming." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 63, no. 1 (November 2019): 1466–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181319631278.

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In this paper we propose a new model for teamwork that integrates team cognition, collective intelligence, and artificial intelligence. We do this by first characterizing what sets team cognition and collectively intelligence apart, and then reviewing the literature on “superforecasting” and the ability for effectively coordinated teams to outperform predictions by large groups. Lastly, we delve into the ways in which teamwork can be enhanced by artificial intelligence through our model, finally highlighting the many areas of research worth exploring through interdisciplinary efforts.

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Dwyer, Paul. "Measuring Collective Cognition in Online Collaboration Venues." International Journal of e-Collaboration 7, no. 1 (January 2011): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jec.2011010104.

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By monitoring online conversations, organizations can receive value from the intellectual activity of their most interested constituents as they engage in problem solving and ideation. However, since intergroup dynamics often hinders people from optimizing collaboration, it should be measured and monitored for quality. Current metrics assess collaborative value solely from the number of collaborators, assuming that differences between individuals can be ignored. This study found that assumption to be wrong by identifying three distinct collaborator segments that strongly differ in the timing of their participation and in the variety of ideas they introduce. Therefore, a new metric is proposed that takes into account the diverse value individuals add. This new measure is correlated with existing measures only in those infrequent situations when collaboration productivity is maximized.

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Aceves, Pedro. "Linguistic Relativity, Collective Cognition, and Team Performance." Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, no. 1 (August 1, 2019): 17244. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.17244abstract.

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Tierney, Therese. "Collective Cognition: Neural Fabrics and Social Software." Architectural Design 76, no. 5 (2006): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.319.

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Maltseva, Kateryna. "Prosocial Morality in Individual and Collective Cognition." Journal of Cognition and Culture 16, no. 1-2 (February 24, 2016): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12342166.

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There has been much interest in understanding the operation of shared collective constructs. Cultural models theory is one of the frameworks in cognitive anthropology engaging the interaction between the individual and collective levels of culture in the process of cultural transmission. The present study attempts to produce the cognitive ethnography focusing on shared understanding of prosocial morality in Sweden. It draws on cognitive data associated with the organization of prosocial ideas (formulated as values) in Swedish society, and uses multi-item scales to explore the distribution of this cultural model across the individual minds and on the group level. The study tests a hypothesis that cultural and individual values priorities have distinct demographic predictors when examined separately, and that these predictors reflect their respective differences in the transmission channels. I stress the importance of the interdisciplinary research to account for the process of consolidation of shared collective knowledge into cultural models.

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Feinerman, Ofer, and Amos Korman. "Individual versus collective cognition in social insects." Journal of Experimental Biology 220, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.143891.

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Turner, John C., Penelope J. Oakes, S. Alexander Haslam, and Craig McGarty. "Self and Collective: Cognition and Social Context." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 20, no. 5 (October 1994): 454–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167294205002.

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Bietti, Lucas M. "Towards a cognitive pragmatics of collective remembering." Pragmatics and Cognition 20, no. 1 (May 7, 2012): 32–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.20.1.02bie.

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This article aims to provide a cognitive and discourse based theory to collective memory research. Despite the fact that a large proportion of studies in collective memory research in social, cognitive, and discourse psychology are based on investigations of (interactional) cognitive and discourse processes, neither linguistics nor cognitive and social psychologists have proposed an integrative, interdisciplinary and discursive-based theory to memory research. I argue that processes of remembering are always embodied and action oriented reconstructions of the past, which are highly dynamic and malleable by means of communication and context. This new approach aims to provide the grounds for a new ecologically valid theory on memory studies which accounts for the mutual interdependencies between communication, cognition, meaning, and interaction, as guiding collective remembering processes in the real-world activities.

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Vega-Trejo, Regina, Annika Boussard, Lotta Wallander, Elisa Estival, Séverine D. Buechel, Alexander Kotrschal, and Niclas Kolm. "Artificial selection for schooling behaviour and its effects on associative learning abilities." Journal of Experimental Biology 223, no. 23 (November 2, 2020): jeb235093. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.235093.

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ABSTRACTThe evolution of collective behaviour has been proposed to have important effects on individual cognitive abilities. Yet, in what way they are related remains enigmatic. In this context, the ‘distributed cognition’ hypothesis suggests that reliance on other group members relaxes selection for individual cognitive abilities. Here, we tested how cognitive processes respond to evolutionary changes in collective motion using replicate lines of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) artificially selected for the degree of schooling behaviour (group polarization) with >15% difference in schooling propensity. We assessed associative learning in females of these selection lines in a series of cognitive assays: colour associative learning, reversal learning, social associative learning, and individual and collective spatial associative learning. We found that control females were faster than polarization-selected females at fulfilling a learning criterion only in the colour associative learning assay, but they were also less likely to reach a learning criterion in the individual spatial associative learning assay. Hence, although testing several cognitive domains, we found weak support for the distributed cognition hypothesis. We propose that any cognitive implications of selection for collective behaviour lie outside of the cognitive abilities included in food-motivated associative learning for visual and spatial cues.

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Zare Zardiny, A., and F. Hakimpour. "COLLECTIVE SPATIAL COGNITION OF KIDS IN COMMUNITY MAPPINGS." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W18 (October 19, 2019): 1153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-w18-1153-2019.

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Abstract. Due to the importance of spatial data in decision making and the cost of collecting these data, in recent years various communities have collaborated on spatial data collection. In these communities some expert and non-expert volunteers record their observations of a region in order to create a map. In these activities one of the most effective tools for recording observations is the sketch map. Due to ease of use and no need to comply with the common rules in Geospatial Information Systems, sketch maps can be drawn by a wide range of people. Because these maps are easy to use and following the GIS rules is not required, sketch maps can be drawn by a wide range of people. Although several studies have focused on raising the level of participation of ordinary people in the field of mapping, less attention has been given to the role of kids as an important part of the society. Hence, this paper including a field study examines the effect of collective spatial cognition of kids in a community mapping activity. For this purpose, the sketches drawn by some school kids are matched and then integrated together, and finally, the output of this process is compared with available metric maps. The results of this study show that despite the stringent conditions and the low age of the participants, the results have been beyond expectations. In this study, kids have provided several points of interest as well as more descriptive information of the region compared to the available data downloaded from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. Therefore, the output of this study can be used to enrich the available metric map.

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Kramer, Roderick M. "Paranoid Cognition in Social Systems: Thinking and Acting in the Shadow of Doubt." Personality and Social Psychology Review 2, no. 4 (November 1998): 251–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0204_3.

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Distrust and suspicion are common and recurring problems at all levels of social organization, ranging from the interpersonal to the collective. Unfortunately, our understanding of the origins and dynamics of such distrust and suspicion remains far from complete. A primary aim of this research, accordingly, was to articulate a new framework for conceptualizing a form of exaggerated distrust and suspicion termed paranoid social cognition. Drawing on recent psychological theory and research, this framework identifies the social cognitive underpinnings of paranoid cognitions. It also specifies some of the situational determinants of such cognition and elaborates on the psychological, behavioral, and social dynamics that sustain them.

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Krushanov, Alexander A. "What Does It Mean Philosophy of the Collective Science?" Voprosy Filosofii, no. 12 (2020): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2020-12-115-123.

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One of the most important tasks which the philosophy of science faces today is the comprehension and methodological regulation of new forms of collective scientific work that are emerging today. The solution to this problem presupposes, in turn, a rethinking of traditional epistemological ideas about cognitive activity, and above all, the idea of its subject. The interpretation of the cognition subject as a cognitive robinson needs to be rethought. For this purpose, the author believes, the philosophy of science should turn to the analysis of the peculiar population effects arising in modern scientific communities. Moreover, in the author's opinion, for a more effective implementation of this analysis, it should be extracted into a special section of the philosophy of science – the philosophy of collective science – which focuses on features of scientific research within the framework of collaboration – cooperation, rather than on the individual creative activity of scientists. Today the research in this direction develops intensively. Both foreign (among whom I would like to note the works of P. Galison) and domestic researchers (I. Kasavin, V. Pronskikh, B. Pruzhinin) are working in this direction today. To the population effects requiring a special philosophical and methodological analysis the author refers: difficulties in developing a professional language of science for the scientific community which performs collective research; the existence of the phenomenon of fashionable scientific direction that deforms cognition; phenomena associated with the exchange of information using scientific messages. The article also touches on the issue of analyzing the structure of the collective subject of cognition. Research teams as subsystems of a collective subject are divided into: structural research teams and informal research teams. All these phenomena reveal themselves in many areas of modern science. But they are especially vividly observed within the framework of the so-called Big Science (megascience). The article also attempts to show that three different types of “collectivity” of scientific activity can be distinguished in collective science.

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Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Alan Penn, Guy Theraulaz, and Stephen M. Fiore. "Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373, no. 1753 (July 2, 2018): 20170232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0232.

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Built structures, such as animal nests or buildings that humans occupy, serve two overarching purposes: shelter and a space where individuals interact. The former has dominated much of the discussion in the literature. But, as the study of collective behaviour expands, it is time to elucidate the role of the built environment in shaping collective outcomes. Collective behaviour in social animals emerges from interactions, and collective cognition in humans emerges from communication and coordination. These collective actions have vast economic implications in human societies and critical fitness consequences in animal systems. Despite the obvious influence of space on interactions, because spatial proximity is necessary for an interaction to occur, spatial constraints are rarely considered in studies of collective behaviour or collective cognition. An interdisciplinary exchange between behavioural ecologists, evolutionary biologists, cognitive scientists, social scientists, architects and engineers can facilitate a productive exchange of ideas, methods and theory that could lead us to uncover unifying principles and novel research approaches and questions in studies of animal and human collective behaviour. This article, along with those in this theme issue aims to formalize and catalyse this interdisciplinary exchange. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour’.

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Pronskikh, Vitaly S. "Ontology of the Collective Experimentalist." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56, no. 4 (2019): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps201956474.

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In this article, the collective experimenter, arising in scientific projects from those modeled on the Alvarez group to megascience, is studied in the framework of the model of trading zones, as well as Actor-Network Theory. The collective experimenter is defined as a network of actors whose forms are trading zones, including the core – the empirical collective subject of cognition – and the peripheral part. The multitude of actors of the collective experimenter includes the core, as well as the community of intentions and the external actors that are part of the periphery of the collective experimenter. Attention is focused on the differences between the author of epistemic claims, the subject of cognition and scientific collaboration. A classification of collective experimentalists is proposed that includes four types of ontologies. The classification is applied to JINR scientific projects, and within its framework projects of the Alvarez type, big science, proto-megascience and megascience are distinguished. Ways of developing projects to the megascience-level through the formation of cores-communicative communities in the structure of the collective experimenter are proposed. Premised on the results obtained, recommendations are formulated for the development of the JINR experiments program.

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Elsbach, Kimberly D., Ileana Stigliani, and Davide Ravasi. "At the Interface: Materiality and Collective Cognition in Organizations." Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, no. 1 (August 2017): 11869. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.11869symposium.

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Stewart, John Robert, and Véronique Havelange. "La cognition collective humaine face à la crise écologique." Intellectica. Revue de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive 64, no. 2 (2015): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/intel.2015.1013.

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Mezias, John, Peter Grinyer, and William D. Guth. "Changing Collective Cognition: A Process Model for Strategic Change." Long Range Planning 34, no. 1 (February 2001): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-6301(00)00096-0.

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Meziaz, John, Peter Grinyer, and William Guth. "Changing Collective Cognition: A Process Model for Strategic Change." Long Range Planning 34, no. 1 (February 2001): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-6301(00)00097-2.

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Ermakoff, Ivan. "Emotions, Cognition, and Collective Alignment: A Response to Collins." American Journal of Sociology 123, no. 1 (July 2017): 284–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/692782.

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Forbes, William Patrick, Sheila O. Donohoe, and Jörg Prokop. "Financial regulation, collective cognition, and nation state crisis management." Journal of Risk Finance 16, no. 3 (May 18, 2015): 284–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrf-10-2014-0157.

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Purpose – The purpose of this cross-national study is to evaluate the communality and differences in experiences and policy responses in the run up to the 2007-2009 credit crisis and during its critical early stages in Germany, Ireland and the UK. The importance of shared cognitive illusions regarding the power and stability of financial markets is emphasised. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple case study approach is used which draws on publicly available information to trace developments leading up to bank failures (or near failures) and the evolution of government responses drawing upon alternative paradigms used to justify State intervention. Findings – Findings emphasise the role of state regulatory bodies and their response to the crisis as a primary source of the “rules of the game” in financial markets, here it is the “game of bank bargains” and a potential source of repair. Given the degree of interconnectedness, opacity and complexity of financial markets investors/politicians/regulators will fall victim to cognitive biases which affect their decisions. Research limitations/implications – This case study method allows identification of patterns in decision-makers’ behaviour and yields richer insights than a quantitative approach but is limited in its generalisability. Practical implications – This paper offers practical implications in suggesting that a pivotal step in effective crisis management requires directly addressing sources of uncertainty, namely, time pressure, complexity and opacity of underlying cause–effect relationships, empowering decision-makers to act responsibly. Originality/value – This paper is novel in its illustration of the collective cognitive paradigm for justifying regulatory action across three countries using six case studies.

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Hung, Woei. "Team-based complex problem solving: a collective cognition perspective." Educational Technology Research and Development 61, no. 3 (April 24, 2013): 365–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-013-9296-3.

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West, G. Page. "Collective Cognition: When Entrepreneurial Teams, Not Individuals, Make Decisions." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 77–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00164.x.

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Ouda, Hassan A. G., and Ralf Klischewski. "Accounting and politicians: a theory of accounting information usefulness." Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management 31, no. 4 (November 14, 2019): 496–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbafm-10-2018-0113.

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Purpose How do cognitive aspects influence the use/non-use of accounting information by the politicians? The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize and theorize the readiness to use and the actual use of accounting information in relation to the human and social agency involved. Design/methodology/approach Applying cognitive fit theory and social cognitive theory, the authors explain how cognition of accounting information producers and users relates to their tasks and their environment. Analyzing cognitive matching, the authors develop accounting information usefulness as a function of the cognitive match between the accounting information producers and users. Findings The theoretical findings posit that cognitive fit increases with the degree of matching between the cognition of accounting information producers and the cognition of accounting information users. The theory proposes that enriching and matching the various cognitive factors lead to formation of more aligned mental representations to govern the processes of accounting information production and use as a prerequisite for the accounting information usefulness. Research limitations/implications By theorizing human cognition, behavior and learning, the authors seek to contribute to the explanation and prediction of accounting information use. Future research needs to empirically validate and/or further develop the propositions. Practical implications Practically, the conceptualization can be used to align individual and collective learning on both sides and to introduce information use audit as an instrument for supporting collective learning. Originality/value The theory of accounting information usefulness is the first attempt in public sector accounting literature to explain the relation of production and consumption of accounting information in relation to the cognition of the actors involved.

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Xiao, Zhang, and Yang Deling. "The “Hyper-Presence” of Cultural Heritage in Shaping Collective Memory." PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality 27, no. 1 (March 2019): 107–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00321.

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Virtual reality (VR) uses sensorial mimetics to construct collective memory in virtual space. The regeneration of high-definition cultural heritage symbols transforms memory into an immediate experience that is constantly being renewed, strengthens the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary society, and continually affects the persistent renewal of cultural traditions. Hyper-presence is a networked state of cognitive psychology that lies in links, interactions, and exchanges; it is the result of networked social minds and distributed cognition. In the contemporary moment, cultural heritage takes on three types of progressively developed presence: simulated restoration presence, informationally reproduced presence, and symbolically regenerated presence. Symbolic regeneration belongs to the realm of hyper-presence. Building databases with data collected on cultural heritage is the foundation of building a cognitive agent. As a platform, VR becomes an efficient mode of information dissemination, forming an independent presence for cultural heritage through the reproduction of media and information. In a network society, informatized cultural heritage becomes a source for the production of new cultural symbols, and presence is created through the continuous regeneration and dissemination of symbols. Symbols and regenerated symbols combine to constitute the hyper-presence of informatized cultural heritage; people's understanding of cultural heritage therefore exists in an ever-changing state. Intelligences with presence on the network form a complete system, and VR creates comprehensive cognition for the system through high-definition virtuality. Formed in the coordination between intelligences, collective memory creates its hyper-presence today.

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Rose, Carol M. "Commons and Cognition." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 19, no. 2 (August 14, 2018): 587–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/til-2018-0029.

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Abstract Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons primarily concerns actions rather than thoughts. But he did famously describe the cognitive state of a hypothetical herder on a grassy field. With respect to the field and its other users, Hardin’s herder is both ignorant and indifferent; he coolly calculates that his best option is to take the full benefit of grazing his stock while suffering only a fraction of the cost — an action that contributes to the decimation of a common resource. While Hardin viewed the herder’s attitude as identical to that of actors in many other collective action situations, the work of other commons theorists suggests several different cognitive stances among such actors, largely depending on the scale of the commons issues they face. Thus participants in the Prisoner’s Dilemma (a very small commons) would appear to be dominated by distrust rather than the hypothetical herder’s ignorance or indifference. Participants in mid-sized commons — such as Hardin’s herders in real life — show some distrust, but also great knowledge and engagement in common pool management. Participants in the largest-scale commons issues are actually those most likely to exhibit the ignorance and indifference that Hardin attributed to the herder. This Article discusses the ways in which these different cognitive stances track the scale of collective action “tragedies” as described by major theorists and concludes with some observations about the cognitive aspects of climate change.

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Freeman, Jacob, Jacopo A. Baggio, and Thomas R. Coyle. "Social and general intelligence improves collective action in a common pool resource system." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 14 (March 24, 2020): 7712–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915824117.

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On a planet experiencing global environmental change, the governance of natural resources depends on sustained collective action by diverse populations. Engaging in such collective action can only build upon the foundation of human cognition in social–ecological settings. To help understand this foundation, we assess the effect of cognitive abilities on the management of a common pool resource. We present evidence that two functionally distinct cognitive abilities, general and social intelligence, improve the ability of groups to manage a common pool resource. Groups high in both forms of intelligence engage in more effective collective action that is also more consistent, despite social or ecological change. This result provides a foundation for integrating the effects of cognitive abilities with other dimensions of cognitive diversity to explain when groups will and will not sustainably govern natural resources.

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Jensen, Jeppe Sinding. "Doing it the Other Way Round: Religion as a Basic Case of ‘Normative Cognition’." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 22, no. 4 (2010): 322–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006810x531102.

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AbstractReligious traditions abundantly demonstrate how norms, rules, constraints and models are installed and transmitted in multiple media: myth, dogma, ritual, institutions, etc. These abound in cosmologies, classification systems, morality, and purity and they influence individual and collective human practice. The term ‘normative cognition’ is introduced here as a covering term for such enculturated and socio-culturally governed cognition. The ‘normative cognition’ approach deals with ‘cognitive governance’ effects of higher-order cognitive products on those of lower levels. Higher-order cognitive products range from religious purity rules, over highway codes to normative scripts, schemata and frames for all kinds of behavior. In short: socio-cultural products allow individual biological brains to interact and act on the world and thereby facilitate the existence of human society. I suggest that research on normative cognition not only casts new light on religion but that it contributes to a general understanding of the complex relations between cognition and culture.

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Chou, Huey-Wen, Yu-Hsun Lin, and Shyan-Bin Chou. "Team Cognition, Collective Efficacy, and Performance in Strategic Decision-Making Teams." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 40, no. 3 (April 1, 2012): 381–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2012.40.3.381.

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With the growing use of teamwork for strategic decision making in organizations, an understanding of the teamwork dynamics in the strategic decision-making process is critical for both researchers and practitioners. By conceptualizing team cognition in terms of a transactive memory system (TMS) and collective mind, in this study we explored the relationships among TMS, collective mind, and collective efficacy and the impact of these variables on team performance. Longitudinal data collected from 98 undergraduates were analyzed. Neither the TMS–team performance relationship nor the collective mind–team performance relationship was significant. Collective efficacy was found to play a mediating role in such relationships. We concluded that team cognition with collective efficacy is beneficial for understanding teamwork dynamics in strategic decision making.

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Santibáñez, Cristián. "Arguing with Images as Extended Cognition." Informal Logic 38, no. 4 (December 18, 2018): 531–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/il.v38i4.5052.

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In this paper the role of images in argumentative settings is analyzed from a cognitive angle. In particular, the proposal of this paper is to see visual argumentation as a specific form of extended and distributed cognition. In order to develop this idea, some of Wittgenstein’s insights are used to put evidence produced by research on temporal-spatial reasoning processes into philosophical perspective. Some contemporary argumentative analyses of visual argumentation are also discussed using commercial and political examples. The paper finishes with the notion of collective minds in order to specify the general idea of arguing with images as extended cognition.

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Katz, Elad, Wim Verleyen, Colin G. Blackmore, Michael Edward, V. Anne Smith, and David J. Harrison. "An Analytical Approach Differentiates Between Individual and Collective Cancer Invasion." Analytical Cellular Pathology 34, no. 1-2 (2011): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/864847.

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Tumour cells employ a variety of mechanisms to invade their environment and to form metastases. An important property is the ability of tumour cells to transition between individual cell invasive mode and collective mode. The switch from collective to individual cell invasion in the breast was shown recently to determine site of subsequent metastasis. Previous studies have suggested a range of invasion modes from single cells to large clusters. Here, we use a novel image analysis method to quantify and categorise invasion. We have developed a process using automated imaging for data collection, unsupervised morphological examination of breast cancer invasion using cognition network technology (CNT) to determine how many patterns of invasion can be reliably discriminated. We used Bayesian network analysis to probabilistically connect morphological variables and therefore determine that two categories of invasion are clearly distinct from one another. The Bayesian network separated individual and collective invading cell groups based on the morphological measurements, with the level of cell-cell contact the most discriminating morphological feature. Smaller invading groups were typified by smoother cellular surfaces than those invading collectively in larger groups. Interestingly, elongation was evident in all invading cell groups and was not a specific feature of single cell invasion as a surrogate of epithelial-mesenchymal transition. In conclusion, the combination of cognition network technology and Bayesian network analysis provides an insight into morphological variables associated with transition of cancer cells between invasion modes. We show that only two morphologically distinct modes of invasion exist.

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Cook, Chelsea N., Natalie J. Lemanski, Thiago Mosqueiro, Cahit Ozturk, Jürgen Gadau, Noa Pinter-Wollman, and Brian H. Smith. "Individual learning phenotypes drive collective behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 30 (July 15, 2020): 17949–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920554117.

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Individual differences in learning can influence how animals respond to and communicate about their environment, which may nonlinearly shape how a social group accomplishes a collective task. There are few empirical examples of how differences in collective dynamics emerge from variation among individuals in cognition. Here, we use a naturally variable and heritable learning behavior called latent inhibition (LI) to show that interactions among individuals that differ in this cognitive ability drive collective foraging behavior in honey bee colonies. We artificially selected two distinct phenotypes: high-LI bees that ignore previously familiar stimuli in favor of novel ones and low-LI bees that learn familiar and novel stimuli equally well. We then provided colonies differentially composed of different ratios of these phenotypes with a choice between familiar and novel feeders. Colonies of predominantly high-LI individuals preferred to visit familiar food locations, while low-LI colonies visited novel and familiar food locations equally. Interestingly, in colonies of mixed learning phenotypes, the low-LI individuals showed a preference to visiting familiar feeders, which contrasts with their behavior when in a uniform low-LI group. We show that the shift in feeder preference of low-LI bees is driven by foragers of the high-LI phenotype dancing more intensely and attracting more followers. Our results reveal that cognitive abilities of individuals and their social interactions, which we argue relate to differences in attention, drive emergent collective outcomes.

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Caracciolo, Marco. "Flocking Together: Collective Animal Minds in Contemporary Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 2 (March 2020): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.239.

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The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups—such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight—is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a fullfledged form of collective cognition. Building on work in philosophy, cognitive approaches to literature, and animal studies, I explore how contemporary fiction captures animal collectivity. I focus on three novels that probe different aspects of animal assemblages: animals as a collective agent (in Richard Powers's The Echo Maker), animals that communicate a shared mind through dance- like movements (in Lydia Davis's The Cows), and animals that embrace a collective “we” to critique the individualism of contemporary society (in Peter Verhelst's The Man I Became). When individuality drops out of the picture of human‐animal encounters in fiction, empathy becomes abstract: a matter of quasi‐geometric patterns that are experienced by readers through an embodied mechanism of kinesthetic resonance. (MC)

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Vlasceanu, Madalina, Karalyn Enz, and Alin Coman. "Cognition in a Social Context: A Social-Interactionist Approach to Emergent Phenomena." Current Directions in Psychological Science 27, no. 5 (September 18, 2018): 369–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721418769898.

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The formation of collective memories, emotions, and beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of human communities. These emergent outcomes are thought to be the result of a dynamical system of communicative interactions among individuals. But despite recent psychological research on collective phenomena, no programmatic framework to explore the processes involved in their formation exists. Here, we propose a social-interactionist approach that bridges cognitive and social psychology to illuminate how microlevel cognitive phenomena give rise to large-scale social outcomes. It involves first establishing the boundary conditions of cognitive phenomena, then investigating how cognition is influenced by the social context in which it is manifested, and finally studying how dyadic-level influences propagate in social networks. This approach has the potential to (a) illuminate the large-scale consequences of well-established cognitive phenomena, (b) lead to interdisciplinary dialogues between psychology and the other social sciences, and (c) be more relevant for public policy than existing approaches.

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Fink, Gerhard, and Maurice Yolles. "Collective emotion regulation in an organisation – a plural agency with cognition and affect." Journal of Organizational Change Management 28, no. 5 (August 10, 2015): 832–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-09-2014-0179.

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Purpose – While emotions and feelings arise in the singular personality, they may also develop a normative dimensionality in a plural agency. The authors identify the cybernetic systemic principles of how emotions might be normatively regulated and affect plural agency performance. The purpose of this paper is to develop a generic cultural socio-cognitive trait theory of plural affective agency (the emotional organization), involving interactive cognitive and affective traits, and these play a role within the contexts of Mergers and Acquisitions (M & A). Design/methodology/approach – The authors integrate James Gross’ model of emotion regulation with the earlier work on normative personality in the context of Mindset Agency Theory. The agency is a socio-cognitive entity with attitude, and operates through traits that control thinking and decision making. These traits are epistemically independent and operate on a bipolar scale; with the alternate poles having an auxiliary function to each other – where the traits may take intermediary “balanced” states between the poles. Findings – Processes of affect regulation are supposed to go through three stages: first, identification (affective situation awareness); second, elaboration of affect is constituted through schemas of emotional feeling, which include emotion ideologies generating emotional responses to distinct contextual situations; third, execution: in the operative system primary emotions are assessed through operative intelligence for any adaptive information and the capacity to organize action; and turned into action, i.e. responses, through cultural feeling rules and socio-cultural display rules, conforming to emotion ideologies. Research limitations/implications – This new theory provides guidance for framing multilevel interaction where smaller collectives (as social systems) are embedded into larger social systems with a culture, an emotional climate and institutions. Thus, it is providing a generic theoretical frame for M & A analyses, where a smaller social unit (the acquired) is to be integrated into a larger social unit (the acquirer). Practical implications – Understanding interdependencies between cognition and emotion regulation is a prerequisite of managerial intelligence, which is at demand during M & A processes. While managerial intelligence may be grossly defined as the capacity of management to find an appropriate and fruitful balance between action and learning orientation of an organization, its affective equivalent is the capacity of management to find a fruitful balance between established emotion expression and learning alternate forms of emotion expression. Social implications – Understanding interdependencies between cognition and emotion is a prerequisite of social, cultural and emotional intelligence. The provided theory can be easily linked with empirical work on the emergence of a cultural climate of fear within societies. Thus, “Affective Agency Theory” also has a bearing for political systems’ analysis, what, however, is beyond the scope of this paper. Originality/value – The paper builds on the recently developed Mindset Agency Theory, elaborating it through the introduction of the dimension of affect, where cognitive and affective traits interact and become responsible for patterns of behaviour. The model is providing a framework which links emotion expression and emotion regulation with cognitive analysis.

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Xu, Shui, Bang Fan Liu, and Xiu Li Ma. "An Idea of Dynamics Inductive Logic in Complex Cognition." Applied Mechanics and Materials 433-435 (October 2013): 579–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.433-435.579.

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As humankind enters the era of organized social cognition, the collective wisdom of the human form needs to face a very complex social conditions and the social environment. In such circumstances, more likely to use social cognition inductive logic. The accumulation and wealth of society knowledge will be more and more abstract representation to promote social awareness, and promote more in-depth characteristics from behavior to inductive references, while ignoring or rarely used to from the nature of the behavior of deductive reasoning. In dynamic cognition conditions, the fusion method is using the following branches of cognitive logic, dynamic logic and probability logic to combine to form a probabilistic dynamic cognition logic, and logic to study the use of these information changes in probability reference. In complex cognitive conditions, the pursuit of knowledge as the basic logic of the value of research areas, including philosophy logic, artificial intelligence logic, computer logic, fuzzy logic and so on.

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García, Alejandro N., José M. Torralba, and Ana Marta González. "Missing emotions: The Z-axis of collective behavior." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 1 (February 2014): 83–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13001738.

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AbstractBentley et al. bypass the relevance of emotions in decision-making, resulting in a possible over-simplification of behavioral types. We propose integrating emotions, both in the north–south axis (in relation to cognition) as well as in the west–east axis (in relation to social influence), by suggesting a Z-axis, in charge of registering emotional depth and involvement.

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Liu, Hongbin, and Yuepeng Zhou. "The Marketization of Rural Collective Construction Land in Northeastern China: The Mechanism Exploration." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 276. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010276.

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The transfer of rural collective construction land into the market (RCCL marketization) is an important starting point for breaking the urban–rural dual system, realizing the sustainable use of land resources and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas in China. This study aims to explore the decision-making of rural households in the marketization of rural collective construction land (RCCL) by constructing a two-stage (cognition-decision) theoretical framework. Based on the household survey data collected from the pilot areas in the three northeastern provinces in China, the structural equation modelling (SEM) has been applied. The main findings are as follows: (1) the four types of exogenous latent variables, including information dissemination, management of collective economic organizations (CEOs), family characteristics, and household head characteristics, are intermediary by household cognition, which then positively affect households’ behavior and decision-making. (2) among the factors affecting household cognition, the management of CEOs exhibits the most significant impact, followed by information dissemination, family characteristics, and household head characteristics. (3) the measurable variables, including participation rights, whether there are collective operating assets, education level, and whether members have social insurance, have significant effects on the four exogenous latent variables. (4) the understanding of income distribution policy has the greatest positive impact on household cognition, while risk perception has the opposite effect, indicating an obvious “risk aversion” tendency for rural households. The findings imply that the government should improve the existing RCCL market entry system from the aspects of strengthening collective economic organization construction, land value-added income sharing mechanism, and clarifying rural land property rights, so as to reduce farmers’ decision-making risks and enhance value perception. Overall, the research presented here contributes to investigating the theoretical mechanism of household decision-making and providing empirical evidence on how to improve the marketization of rural collective construction land in China.

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Kramer, Roderick M. "The sinister attribution error: Paranoid cognition and collective distrust in organizations." Motivation and Emotion 18, no. 2 (June 1994): 199–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02249399.

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Will, Thomas. "Innovation as Emergent Collective Cognition: An Agent-Based Nested Radii View." Academy of Management Proceedings 2012, no. 1 (July 2012): 15032. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2012.15032abstract.

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Johnson, Phyl. "Swapping Collective Cognition for Experienced Collectivity in the Strategic-Management Literature." International Studies of Management & Organization 39, no. 1 (April 2009): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/imo0020-8825390102.

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England, Neil. "Developing an Interpretation of Collective Beliefs in Language Teacher Cognition Research." TESOL Quarterly 51, no. 1 (September 16, 2016): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tesq.334.

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Dinet, Céline, Alphée Michelot, Julien Herrou, and Tâm Mignot. "Linking single-cell decisions to collective behaviours in social bacteria." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1820 (January 25, 2021): 20190755. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0755.

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Social bacteria display complex behaviours whereby thousands of cells collectively and dramatically change their form and function in response to nutrient availability and changing environmental conditions. In this review, we focus on Myxococcus xanthus motility, which supports spectacular transitions based on prey availability across its life cycle. A large body of work suggests that these behaviours require sensory capacity implemented at the single-cell level. Focusing on recent genetic work on a core cellular pathway required for single-cell directional decisions, we argue that signal integration, multi-modal sensing and memory are at the root of decision making leading to multicellular behaviours. Hence, Myxococcus may be a powerful biological system to elucidate how cellular building blocks cooperate to form sensory multicellular assemblages, a possible origin of cognitive mechanisms in biological systems. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Basal cognition: conceptual tools and the view from the single cell’.

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Rayudu Posina, Venkata. "Hard, Harder, and the Hardest Problem: The Society of Cognitive Selves." Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 75–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.12726/tjp.23.5.

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The hard problem of consciousness is explicating how moving matter becomes thinking matter. Harder yet is the problem of spelling out the mutual determinations of individual experiences and the experiencing self. Determining how the collective social consciousness influences and is influenced by the individual selves constituting the society is the hardest problem. Drawing parallels between individual cognition and the collective knowing of mathematical science, here we present a conceptualization of the cognitive dimension of the self. Our abstraction of the relations between the physical world, biological brain, mind, intuition, consciousness, cognitive self, and the society can facilitate the construction of the conceptual repertoire required for an explicit science of the self within human society.

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Charlesworth, Henry J., and Matthew S. Turner. "Intrinsically motivated collective motion." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 31 (July 17, 2019): 15362–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1822069116.

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Collective motion is found in various animal systems, active suspensions, and robotic or virtual agents. This is often understood by using high-level models that directly encode selected empirical features, such as coalignment and cohesion. Can these features be shown to emerge from an underlying, low-level principle? We find that they emerge naturally under future state maximization (FSM). Here, agents perceive a visual representation of the world around them, such as might be recorded on a simple retina, and then move to maximize the number of different visual environments that they expect to be able to access in the future. Such a control principle may confer evolutionary fitness in an uncertain world by enabling agents to deal with a wide variety of future scenarios. The collective dynamics that spontaneously emerge under FSM resemble animal systems in several qualitative aspects, including cohesion, coalignment, and collision suppression, none of which are explicitly encoded in the model. A multilayered neural network trained on simulated trajectories is shown to represent a heuristic mimicking FSM. Similar levels of reasoning would seem to be accessible under animal cognition, demonstrating a possible route to the emergence of collective motion in social animals directly from the control principle underlying FSM. Such models may also be good candidates for encoding into possible future realizations of artificial “intelligent” matter, able to sense light, process information, and move.

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