Unspeciated™
An intelligence framework for recognizing life on its own terms.
Perceive · Relate To · Apply
Intelligence is life recognizing itself through
awareness, meaning, and participation.
awareness, meaning, and participation.
Perceive
receiving the world
Sensing and receiving the world, both the signals around a being and those within its own body through interoception, the body's sensing of itself, and the patterns and context they carry.
Affordances
where perceiving becomes action
where perceiving becomes action
Umwelt
where perceiving becomes meaning
where perceiving becomes meaning
Apply
acting and participating
Meaning expressed through behavior, adaptation, communication, and participation in the living systems around it.
Relate To
transforming information into meaning
The interior step where what is perceived becomes meaningful to the being itself. This is meaning-making, not relationship between beings.
Enactive cognition
where meaning becomes action
where meaning becomes action
living participation
The living whole these three compose, left unnamed because the wholeness of a life is not a thing a number can hold.
Gopher Tortoise · Relate To-primary
Signature: its shape leans toward meaning-making, the pattern it shares with many other species.
Character: it deepens one burrow over decades in a single piece of ground, a life unique to this species' contribution to its ecosystem.
A living, growing database, continually refined for accuracy.
265 species profiles · 54 documented natural senses · 1,820+ sense implementations · every kingdom of life.
The technology is the scaffolding. Life is the intelligence.
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