This paper proposes that cognitive processes across radically different substrates — biological cells, neural organisms, artificial intelligence systems, and hybrid assemblages — can be mapped within a shared multidimensional conceptual space. Rather than treating intelligence as a binary property or a uniquely human capacity, the framework identifies the organizational and informational axes along which cognitive processes vary, enabling systematic comparison across what OM’s work calls “diverse intelligences.”
The paper is directly relevant to the Diverse Intelligence research program’s effort to understand where different cognitive entities — individual organisms, underground cultural formations, DAOs, and LLMs — sit on the gradient of cognitive diversity. It provides a more formal and empirically grounded framework than philosophical arguments alone for the claim that synthetic, collective, and biological intelligences constitute a single multidimensional space rather than categorically distinct phenomena.
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837