Stephen Downes

This is an interesting paper with an ambitious aim, as described in the abstract: "Within this framework, cognition is treated as a graded capacity to sense, process, and act upon information, allowing systems as diverse as cells, brains, artificial agents, and human–AI collectives to be analyzed within a common conceptual landscape." In addition to core requirements - sensation and memory - the framework describes cognitive capacity in terms of complexity, and also considers hybrid cognition as a consequence of agency and interaction. I think the approach is sound, but that it is incommensurable with terms like 'information' and 'processing', which reflect a computational, rather than network, basis for cognition.