From Biological Precursors to Artificial Cognition: Consciousness, Embodiment, and the MEM Architecture

arXiv:2609.23828 · q-bio.NC · Submitted 2026-09-20 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-20

Updated: 2026-09-20

Terminology

• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• World Model — 10× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Associative Memory — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 8× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Active Inference — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Introspection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multimodal Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• VLA Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Autonomous Embodied Agents: When Robotics Meets Deep Learning Reasoning
• Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?
• A Mathematical Model of Motivated Emotional Mind - Cognitive Embodied System
• Taking AI Welfare Seriously

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