A healthy agent ecology has rhythm—automated steps alternating with deferral and action alternating with review.

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• A robust agent ecology requires both automated-aligned action and explicit deferral—contrast between these regimes is essential.claim0.830
• A healthy agent ecology has a smooth trust gradient between user and agents, not a binary on/off.claim0.817
• Defining 'life' for agent ecologies requires explicit claim about adaptive responsiveness, compositional richness, or stewardship affordance.claim0.760
• All intelligent agents—biological, technological, or hybrid—can be assessed via stress-care-intelligence loops regardless of substrate.claim0.747
• Plants display goal-directed, anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive behaviors including kin discrimination, cooperation, mimicry, and risk evaluationfinding0.746
  Empirical evidence from plant neurobiology showing behavioral patterns historically attributed to animal sentience.
• successful agents exhibited causal emergence that was consistently predictive of final reward early in training and whose representational dynamics aligned with reward improvement in most tasks.quote0.744
  Load-bearing summary of the main empirical finding that anchors the Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis.
• Agents perceive by minimizing variational free energy to ensure model consistency with past observations and act by minimizing expected free energy to make future sensations consistent with preferences.claim0.742
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• We recognize degrees of life or health in ecological systems, and one meadow feels more alive than another.claim0.742
  Shows that the feeling of life also applies to whole ecosystems.