Evolutionary transitions to new complex life forms mirror Alexander's levels of scale, each producing new nested centers with division of labor and interdependence.

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Agential evolution & biological individuality
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Frames evolution as producing goal-directed, problem-solving agents across nested scales of individuality.
Hierarchical emergence through nested centers and constraints
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Alexander's 15 properties framework applied to evolutionary transitions, self-organization, and morphological design across scales using constraint-based emergence mechanisms.

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Evolutionary transitions in individuality correspond to deep interaction structures or perhaps other mechanisms of multi-scale dynamics.hypothesis0.839
Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.
Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.826
Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.820
Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
Evolutionary transitions must be explained by bottom-up selection on existing lower-level units without presupposing higher-level unitclaim0.810
Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.810
Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
Evolution re-uses many of the same mechanisms and strategies across scales of organization and problem spaces.claim0.807
Claims that scale-free dynamics, like bioelectric networks, are ancient and conserved.
How Can Evolutionary Transitions Create New Levels Ofquestion0.804
Evolutionary transitions in individuality constitute a form of deep model induction.claim0.803
Links ETIs to the learning of hierarchical representations.

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How do biological systems at different scales generate and maintain individuality?questions/how-do-biological-systems-at-different-scales-generate.md0.820
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How do multiple short-sighted, self-interested entities organize their relationships with one another to create a new level of individuality such that they act consistently with long-term collective interest?questions/how-do-multiple-shortsighted-selfinterested-entities-organize-their.md0.816
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