Aivokammion

Aivokammion is a fictional term used in speculative biology and science fiction to denote a hypothetical neural chamber or organ responsible for distributed cognition in an organism. The concept is not attested in real biology.

Etymology: The name blends elements suggestive of brain and chamber, drawn from constructed roots; in fiction it is typically treated as a compound noun.

Structure: In many depictions, an aivokammion comprises multiple interconnected cavities or lobes, arranged along the body axis or within a central cavity; these chambers contain neural tissue and glial support, with channels linking them to sensory and motor systems.

Function: The aivokammion supports parallel processing and emergent intelligence; it can coordinate learning and memory across distributed nodes, and may confer resilience if one chamber is damaged.

Contexts and usage: The concept is used to explore questions about distributed cognition, minimal cognition, and the feasibility of brain-like computation without a single centralized organ. It appears in world-building, thought experiments, and discussions about future bio-inspired computing.

See also: distributed cognition; brain ventricle; nervous system; organoid.