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Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novelembodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety ofchimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software.These advances are disrupting familiar concepts in the philosophy of mind, andrequire new ways of thinking about and comparing truly diverse intelligences,whose composition and origin are not like any of the available natural modelspecies. In this Perspective, I introduce TAME - Technological Approach to MindEverywhere - a framework for understanding and manipulating cognition inunconventional substrates. TAME formalizes a non-binary (continuous),empirically-based approach to strongly embodied agency. When applied toregenerating/developmental systems, TAME suggests a perspective onmorphogenesis as an example of basal cognition. The deep symmetry betweenproblem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D(traditional behavioral) spaces drives specific hypotheses by which cognitivecapacities can scale during evolution. An important medium exploited byevolution for joining active subunits into greater agents is developmentalbioelectricity, implemented by pre-neural use of ion channels and gap junctionsto scale cell-level feedback loops into anatomical homeostasis. Thisarchitecture of multi-scale competency of biological systems has importantimplications for plasticity of bodies and minds, greatly potentiatingevolvability. Considering classical and recent data from the perspectives ofcomputational science, evolutionary biology, and basal cognition, reveals arich research program with many implications for cognitive science,evolutionary biology, regenerative medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME): an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds