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Geometric frustration

Geometric frustration occurs when local interactions have preferred configurations, but the geometry of the system means that there is no collective configuration in which each interaction is at its preferred state. For example, suppose tha...

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Prestress: a control parameter for alignment

Tensegrity structures produce collective behavior despite having purely mechanical components because the prestress across the system organizes the components into a collective mode of behavior. The result is alignment: the components all b...

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Prestress regulation systems beyond tensegrity

I recently argued that prestress is a cognitive glue that enables categorization, a cognitive property, to occur even in purely mechanical systems such as tensegrity structures. But tensegrity is far from the only kind of structure to exhib...

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Categorization in purely mechanical structures via prestress as a cognitive glue

Tensegrity structures have some fascinating and counterintuitive visual and behavioral properties. Visually, they are able to hold themselves up in a self-maintaining equilibrium; they do not depend on their own weight, on gravity, or on an...

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The cognitive light cone of a mechanical object

Entities like cells and humans have cognitive light cones: the size of the largest goal they can construct. This could be size in space and time, like the ability to coordinate business deals across years and countries, or it could be in so...

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