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Many Minds

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The Oncogene in Multicellularity

During multicellularity, the self expand drastically. If you are a single cell, an amoeba, your cognitive like cone is about the size of a single cell. And so as far as it's concerned, that computational boundary of the self now shrinks to the level of one cell. The thing is not only can it grow, but it can also shrink. This model sheds kind of a different light on some of these processes in which that boundary of theSelf grows and shrinks as a function of time.

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