Intelligence Across Kingdoms: Shared Hardware, Triadic Architecture, and the Geometric Basis of Memory
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Abstract
Intelligence is conventionally treated as a human trait, or at most a neural one. This paper argues
it is neither: intelligence is what sufficiently organized triadic matter does, wherever that matter
appears. Plants and animals — down to the smallest microorganisms — run on shared biological
equipment: cells, membranes, ion channels, microtubules, fractal branching architectures. What
differs between kingdoms, and between individuals, is adaptation and configuration, not the
underlying machinery.
Three universal behaviors appear across all living things: sensing the environment, provisioning
offspring, and protecting others — a sense-provision-protect triad that mirrors the framework's
minimum stable architecture. Memory, in this account, is not stored like files on a drive but as
geometric configurations in a shared substrate, with the brain serving as tuner and local cache
rather than warehouse. Each pass over an experience leaves an imprint whose strength
determines recall; filing and retrieval architectures must match or the memory is present but
unreachable. Neurodivergence appears here not as deficit but as position on an architectural
scale — structurally different filing, mismatched by environments built for one end of the scale.
The paper states falsifiable predictions and honest boundaries. What is observed is labeled
observed; what is modeled is labeled modeled; what is open is labeled open.
Keywords: triality, intelligence, plant cognition, memory consolidation, neurodivergence,
geometric memory, quorum sensing, hyperphantasia
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BibTeX
@misc{jones2026intelligence,
title = {{Intelligence Across Kingdoms: Shared Hardware, Triadic Architecture, and the Geometric Basis of Memory}},
author = {Arthur Leroy Jones},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23440449},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23440449},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Intelligence Across Kingdoms: Shared Hardware, Triadic Architecture, and the Geometric Basis of Memory
AU - Arthur Leroy Jones
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/17
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23440449
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23440449
AB - Intelligence is conventionally treated as a human trait, or at most a neural one. This paper argues it is neither: intelligence is what sufficiently organized triadic matter does, wherever that matter appears. Plants and animals — down to the smallest microorganisms — run on shared biological equipment: cells, membranes, ion channels, microtubules, fractal branching architectures. What differs between kingdoms, and between individuals, is adaptation and configuration, not the underlying machinery. Three universal behaviors appear across all living things: sensing the environment, provisioning offspring, and protecting others — a sense-provision-protect triad that mirrors the framework's minimum stable architecture. Memory, in this account, is not stored like files on a drive but as geometric configurations in a shared substrate, with the brain serving as tuner and local cache rather than warehouse. Each pass over an experience leaves an imprint whose strength determines recall; filing and retrieval architectures must match or the memory is present but unreachable. Neurodivergence appears here not as deficit but as position on an architectural scale — structurally different filing, mismatched by environments built for one end of the scale. The paper states falsifiable predictions and honest boundaries. What is observed is labeled observed; what is modeled is labeled modeled; what is open is labeled open. Keywords: triality, intelligence, plant cognition, memory consolidation, neurodivergence, geometric memory, quorum sensing, hyperphantasia
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